Life and Death
August 14, 2012
Many of those who evacuated from Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, after last year's nuclear disaster made a temporary return to their hometown Aug. 13 to visit their family graves ...
August 07, 2012
HIROSHIMA--It took a visit to this historic city by a group of students to realize the atomic bombing 67 years ago was more than something from the distant past learned only in ...
August 04, 2012
A grand piano recovered from the muck of tsunami-stricken Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, will be played by singer Kumiko in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, the 67th anniversary of the...
July 31, 2012
NATORI, Miyagi Prefecture--Walking through the scarred landscape of Natori's Yuriage district, in Miyagi Prefecture, Yuko Tanno tells visitors of the destruction left behind by ...
July 24, 2012
A day after the Tohoku earthquake hit, the Futaba Hospital director ordered 209 patients and all doctors and nurses to flee to safety as the disaster started unfolding at the...
July 17, 2012
New zones for a largely deserted village near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant took effect on July 17, the first step in allowing residents to start returning...
July 16, 2012
Children in the disaster-hit city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 15 received a cool gift to play with for at least one day in the summer heat.
July 13, 2012
Scientists said high doses of radiation found in the thyroid glands of evacuees from areas near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were actually well within international...
July 06, 2012
A plain bracelet reminds Eri Watanabe of both the happy times and the moments of terror with her grandmother on the day the Great East Japan Earthquake struck.
July 06, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Rikuzentakata, a city devastated by last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, set up an official Facebook page for its “miracle...
July 05, 2012
HIRONO, Fukushima Prefecture--Amid the gloom and desolation that exists now near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Yumiko Nishimoto sees a future here filled...
July 03, 2012
Captured as a stray five months after the nuclear disaster last year, the cat was bedraggled, half-starved and diseased.
July 02, 2012
After being forced to evacuate her home following the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, homemaker Hideka Mochizuki now finds herself an evacuee in Osaka and...
July 01, 2012
MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--Just like in the old days, when the lights were turned down, the screen came to life, and the audience could forget their troubles, if only for a few...
June 26, 2012
For Sadaharu Mishina, running as an Olympic torchbearer in Britain on June 25 had special poignancy.
June 25, 2012
Commercial goods containing cotton from farmland damaged by last year’s tsunami were put on sale for the first time in Tokyo on June 23.
June 20, 2012
Organizers of the Fukushima Biennale are seeking supporters to help fund a public display of the "Sun Child," a gigantic statue of a boy gazing up at the future, at this...
June 20, 2012
After last year's tsunami swept through his hometown of Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, singer-songwriter Takaaki Konno did his part in relief efforts, including participating in ...
June 16, 2012
SENDAI--Out of tragedy, hope can only follow.
June 14, 2012
SENDAI--Police sketch artist Kazuo Koriyama is used to drawing images of bad guys, but now he's putting his pencil to work to help identify victims of last year’s earthquake...