Life and Death
April 28, 2012
Sakura wonders where all the people went.
April 27, 2012
When she lost her parents and younger sister in the tsunami that struck northeastern Japan in March last year, reporter Kumiko Konno set aside her objectivity and covered her...
April 24, 2012
The owner of a volleyball that was swept away by last year’s tsunami and deposited on the shore of a distant Alaskan island has been found.
April 23, 2012
As one of only four people still living in the no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Naoko Ito is surprisingly opposed to lifting the ban and allowing...
April 23, 2012
Misaki Murakami lost all of his possessions in last year’s tsunami. But at least one of his treasures is coming back--from thousands of kilometers away.
April 20, 2012
It has been said that even in the darkest of moments, a rose can bloom. For Kei Sato, a photographer who lost his mother in the Great East Japan Earthquake, truer words have...
April 18, 2012
Ashwin Cresswell’s heart was pounding on his trip from Perth in Australia to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. One thought kept racing in the mind of the 9-year-old boy as the...
April 15, 2012
NAGASAKI--A-bomb survivor Masahito Hirose knows that female high school students in Fukushima city need reassurance as they worry about the future ramifications of the...
April 14, 2012
ONAHAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--The first cherry blossoms in the disaster-stricken Tohoku region came into bloom on April 13, giving hope to people recovering from the Great...
April 13, 2012
More than 20 percent of mothers in disaster areas of Miyagi Prefecture who gave birth around the time the Great East Japan Earthquake struck are showing signs of postpartum...
April 12, 2012
Carrying a camcorder she borrowed from her professor, Yuka Kanno returned last summer to her tsunami-ravaged hometown of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, in an emotional...
April 10, 2012
After the tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, fires broke out in the Miyagi Prefecture port town of Kesennuma. Flames licked the dark sea surface, with sounds of explosions...
April 05, 2012
OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--As a former president of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Akimi Serizawa was moved to take action when he saw the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1...
March 30, 2012
A month after the Great East Japan Earthquake hit last March, a young girl was pictured playing a trumpet at the remains of her tsunami-swept home to pray for her mother's soul....
March 24, 2012
Ishinomaki Technical High School ace pitcher Takumi Miura has already fulfilled one promise by bringing his ailing mom to Koshien Stadium. Now, he has vowed to bring her back...
March 17, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Parents of children killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake held portraits of their offspring at Okawa Elementary School’s graduation...
March 17, 2012
KUJI, Iwate Prefecture--As the first new recruit of Sanriku Railway Co. in 12 years, Sho Komatsu’s initial task was to clear debris and mud from around a train station he had ...
March 16, 2012
SUMITA, Iwate Prefecture -- Joni Owada and her family live surrounded by hills, far from the sea, yet their front yard is filled with round floats--the glass type used by...
March 16, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture -- Few people would consider themselves lucky to live in the shadow of a post-meltdown nuclear power plant, but that's exactly what John Loynes...
March 16, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--At least one species is enjoying life in the shadow of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.