Life and Death
March 15, 2012
SENDAI, Miyagi Prefecture -- Many English teachers come to Japan looking for adventure. For a few Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) participants in Miyagi Prefecture,...
March 14, 2012
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--It took nearly a year, but Jennifer Suzuki, Fe Murakami and Maricelle Takahashi--three survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the...
March 14, 2012
Drawing an animation on a disaster on the scale of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake is no easy task, even for a seasoned anime director such as Koji Morimoto.
March 13, 2012
When the Great East Japan Earthquake struck last March 11, foreign businessmen such as Brazilian Shinji Mogi and Bangladeshi Akter Hossain refused to sit idly by and do nothing.
March 13, 2012
ASHLAND, Virginia--The parents of Taylor Anderson, the 24-year-old American teaching assistant who died in the Great East Japan Earthquake, said at a memorial service that they ...
March 12, 2012
As the sound of sirens resounded across Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m., Tomonobu and Midori Mori put their hands together and prayed for the shy girl who grew up ...
March 12, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Few people would give up a comfortable life to move to an apocalyptic disaster zone at a time when even residents are leaving in droves. Even...
March 12, 2012
Sirens wailed, bells tolled and tears flowed across Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, as the nation mourned victims on the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
March 12, 2012
OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture--Yuki Monou was looking forward to her big break in professional manga illustration, the start of her first magazine serial, when the March 11...
March 11, 2012
When push came to shove, members of the Sendai-based rock band Monkey Majik put down their guitars and backed up the messages of love they sing about with action.
March 11, 2012
Atop the rubble was a stuffed animal, its head long gone--a teddy bear perhaps? A child must have held it in a loving embrace until the final moment.
March 11, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Koichi Komatsu knows in his heart that his wife Emiko did not survive the tsunami.
March 11, 2012
When the Great East Japan Earthquake hit northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, French comic book writer Jean David Morvan felt a big tremor in the fashionable Kichijoji...
March 10, 2012
In the tense days after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the world’s eyes turned briefly on the “Fukushima 50,” the small group of men desperately ...
March 10, 2012
Emperor Akihito, who at 78 is recuperating from heart surgery last month, will attend a memorial service in Tokyo on March 11 for the 20,000 victims of the Great East Japan...
March 09, 2012
HANAMAKI, Iwate Prefecture--A children’s orchestra formed after the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake and equipped with musical instruments donated from around Asia will...
March 09, 2012
Reporter Hiroyuki Yokoi has had a lot to write about the past 12 months: He saw his town washed away by the March 11 tsunami, his family briefly fled into his boss’s office...
March 08, 2012
When a 9-year-old boy from Fukushima Prefecture wrote a letter to Prime Minister Naoto Kan in August, he asked a question that was on the minds of many other children his age.
March 07, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The weather had warmed up a bit on March 1, but Tetsuya Tadano decides to remain comfortably seated at a “kotatsu” (foot warmer table)...
March 06, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Born amid the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake last year, little Runa Hoshiyama has had an unsettling first year of life.