Life and Death
March 04, 2012
About a year after appearing in an iconic photo of the devastation from the March 11 quake and tsunami, Akane Ito is pursuing her childhood dream of opening a pet grooming...
March 03, 2012
Shinichi Endo busies himself every day with woodcarving projects to help him deal with the loss of his three children who were killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake and...
March 01, 2012
SENDAI--Hundreds of hand-carved Buddhist statues are to be presented to parents who lost children in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
February 29, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--At Hisako Yokoyama’s temporary housing unit in this disaster-stricken city, a cellphone sounds the alarm for an imminent earthquake.
February 29, 2012
If a picture paints a thousand words, the powerful images in three photo exhibitions of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake at various venues must be worth more than a...
February 28, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Fujio Sato lost his wife, grandson and granddaughter in the Great East Japan Earthquake, but sleeps with their photographs every night.
February 28, 2012
An elementary school engulfed by the tsunami from the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake is recording the memories of pupils whose lives were narrowly saved by the decision...
February 24, 2012
Japan’s cherry blossoms were never more poignant than last spring, when stunning canopies of pink and white spread across the Tohoku coast just weeks after the March 11...
February 24, 2012
They’ve banded together in various areas around Japan to perhaps see familiar faces or be around those who truly understand their predicament.
February 23, 2012
Yumi Goto wanted children in areas hit hard by the March 11 disaster to record the devastation and reconstruction from their own perspectives, because they are the future.
February 22, 2012
After Kaneo Miura built a new fishing vessel, he proudly displayed colorful "tairyo-bata"--the flags indicating a successful haul from the sea--on the boat near a fish market...
February 21, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--"I want to cry, it’s just that I don't know how best to cry. Tears just don't come naturally to me."
February 20, 2012
FUKUSHIMA--Two women were likely exposed to radiation exceeding the government’s annual ceiling in the four months after the accident started at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
February 12, 2012
Joining the growing call led by Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, thousands of people rallied and took to the streets of Tokyo to demand the abolition of nuclear power plants on Feb....
February 11, 2012
The evacuated area around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will be divided into five zones along municipal borders under a staged government plan to return...
February 09, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--The breezy, balmy sounds of Hawaii and the beautiful Hula Girls have finally come home to Spa Resort Hawaiians, a major hot spring resort here, to...
February 04, 2012
About 2.3 percent of farmers in Fukushima Prefecture yielded rice with radioactive cesium levels exceeding the government’s new safety standard, according to prefectural...
February 03, 2012
AOMORI--At the foot of Mount Iwakisan on Jan. 10, a woman entered the Kojuen center for orphans and needy children in Tsuruta town and handed an envelope to staff members.
February 02, 2012
In a rural area 15 kilometers southwest of the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture, a business office displays the signboard of a construction company. But inside, a...
February 01, 2012
The roads in the village of Kawauchi are largely deserted, with the rare movement usually being an individual braving the winter cold to decontaminate radiation from the...