Opinion
April 30, 2011
A charity concert to support survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake was held on March 29 in Phon, a rural community with a population of 12,000 in northeastern Thailand,...
April 29, 2011
When Mayor Katsutaka Idogawa of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, held a news conference on April 1, a reporter asked: "Mr. Mayor, you are staying at an evacuation center. Are all...
April 26, 2011
As most Japanese know, a high proportion of the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami were elderly. This reflected the particular demography of the...
April 22, 2011
What sort of era are we living in? What does history teach us? To help us understand, the vernacular Asahi Shimbun interviewed Minoru Kawakita, professor emeritus at Osaka...
April 21, 2011
A week after the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, I flew over the Tohoku region. Looking down at the devastated area with a stunned eye, scenes of horror of another "11"...
April 20, 2011
Since the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, I have had to repeatedly stop myself from borrowing a line from the TV series "Odoru Dai-Sosa-sen" and shouting: "Disasters are...
April 20, 2011
"Slacktivism" appears to be gaining traction among Japanese Internet users. The coined word, a mix of the English words "slacker" and "activism," means to casually engage in...
April 18, 2011
NEW YORK--The renowned Japanese literature expert Donald Keene, professor emeritus at Columbia University, is teaching for the last time this spring term.
April 14, 2011
The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left immeasurable scars across northeastern Japan on an unprecedented scale. What questions did the catastrophic disaster and the ensuing...
April 06, 2011
During the past few weeks, while Japan has experienced the horrendous triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, I have been amazed at the encouraging and...
March 28, 2011
The mega-earthquake that struck northeastern Japan on March 11 has no precedent. The magnitude-9.0 temblor triggered devastating tsunami more than 10 meters high. No one had...
March 27, 2011
As a hibakusha survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Keijiro Matsushima, 82, has been speaking publicly about his personal experience in English for foreign...
March 25, 2011
After the problems emerged at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., we installed monitoring posts to measure radiation levels in various ...
March 24, 2011
While the initial crisis at the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has somewhat subsided, radiation leaks from the reactors emerged as a very grave problem.
March 22, 2011
The Great East Japan Earthquake may serve as a catalyst for a drastic change in Japan's political and administrative systems.
March 21, 2011
Shunichi Yamashita, a professor of radiation medicine at Nagasaki University who became adviser to Fukushima Prefecture on radiation health risk control, says people should be...
March 21, 2011
The Great East Japan Earthquake struck when the town assembly of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, was in session. The shock came just as I had been talking about a jolt that...
March 19, 2011
For days now, television viewers around the world have been inundated with aerial images of quake- and tsunami-devastated towns in northeastern Japan, where survivors marked...