Life and Death
February 01, 2012
Described as having the "hands of God," Ruiko Sasahara has the heavenly ability to bring back smiles to the faces of the long deceased.
January 31, 2012
Local governments are scrambling to improve insulation in temporary housing units for Great East Japan Earthquake evacuees amid some of the coldest weather experienced in a...
January 27, 2012
Secret U.S. contingency plans that might have helped emergency teams trying to deal with the total power failure at the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant were sat on by...
January 25, 2012
Seven years after his rescue from near his family's buried car following a major earthquake in Niigate Prefecture touched the world, Yuta Minagawa has grown into a treasure for ...
January 23, 2012
NIHONMATSU, Fukushima Prefecture--Children played with earth and fallen leaves for the first time in nearly a year at a new indoor play area in this nuclear accident-affected...
January 21, 2012
A young basketball fan is currently bouncing his way from Tokyo to disaster-stricken Miyagi Prefecture to raise money for quake-hit regions.
January 21, 2012
The imperial couple, the prime minister and bereaved family members will attend a government ceremony to commemorate victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake in Tokyo on...
January 21, 2012
YAMAGATA, Yamagata Prefecture--Artworks created out of debris by children in disaster-stricken Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, will be on display in Zagarolo, Italy in March.
January 18, 2012
KOBE--At 5:46 a.m. on Jan. 17, Toshinori Fujita and his wife, Hidemi, prayed for the victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck at that moment 17 years ago, but their...
January 09, 2012
A 19-year-old in a Coming-of-Age Day ceremony in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, clutched a photograph of a friend killed in the March 11 tsunami, one of the many reminders of ...
January 08, 2012
IITATE, Fukushima Prefecture--Tsuyoshi and Hisano Sato celebrated the New Year's holidays in the same way they have done for years.
January 04, 2012
A 4-year-old boy in Tokyo's Meguro Ward wears two flu masks and a raincoat every time he goes to his kindergarten. When he returns home, he is immediately told to shower and...
January 03, 2012
In celebration of the new year, a troupe performed a traditional “shishimai” lion dance on Jan. 2 in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, offering inspiration to survivors of...
January 02, 2012
People in disaster-stricken northeastern Japan were greeted with a spectacular glowing orange sunrise on New Year’s Day, a sign many in the Tohoku region hoped would herald...
January 01, 2012
A huge traditional kite emblazoned with a glowing rising sun from tsunami-hit Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is on display at Tokyo Midtown.
December 31, 2011
MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--Fumio Hatakeyama has been a car salesman for 40 years, and in the small seaside towns and villages where he works, it is still the human...
December 30, 2011
Fukushima prefectural police, working with a firefighting team, on Dec. 29 mounted this year’s last major search in coastal areas of the prefecture for those still missing...
December 28, 2011
A mirage of a series of floating islands appeared Dec. 27 off the coast of Ishinomki, Miyagi Prefecture, an area hard hit by the March 11 earthquake.
December 26, 2011
KAWAMATA, Fukushima Prefecture—It may have come nine months late, but for some children from Iitate in Fukushima Prefecture, a graduation ceremony made this Christmas a...
December 23, 2011
Areas devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake were projected in the dome of a planetarium in Tokyo on Dec. 20 to provide a better perspective of the extent of the damage.