Quake and Tsunami
March 21, 2011
Encouraged by their families or governments back home, droves of foreign residents are fleeing areas in northeastern Japan hard hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami. But...
March 21, 2011
KAMAISHI, Iwate Prefecture--Wearing rain boots and carrying backpacks, a team of medical workers carefully picked their way over makeshift "roads" of old tatami spread over...
March 19, 2011
SENDAI--A small ray of hope emerged amid the worst natural disaster to hit postwar Japan.
March 19, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Life was filled with joy for Eriko Okuda. Her 23-year-old son, Satoshi, had married a week earlier, and Okuda was having lunch with her...
March 19, 2011
For so many quake survivors, trying to cremate loved ones killed in last week's Great East Japan Earthquake has added to their already-heavy burden.
March 19, 2011
The death toll one week after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck exceeded the figure for the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.
March 19, 2011
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Saturday marked the start of a massive effort to provide temporary housing to people displaced by the Great East Japan Earthquake and the...
March 19, 2011
YAMADA, Iwate Prefecture--As northeast Japan struggles to come to terms with the magnitude of destruction triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake, some survivors in...
March 18, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--His image and handmade sign seeking information on his family and relatives drew sympathy from not only those in evacuation centers, but from...
March 18, 2011
Satellite images showed that coastal areas of Fukushima Prefecture were drastically transformed as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
March 18, 2011
Since the focus of the Great East Japan Earthquake was close to land, the ensuing tsunami caused great damage.
March 18, 2011
The wall of water that engulfed the coastline of Sendai in northeastern Japan a week ago was 10 meters high, three times what local officials had anticipated, according to a...
March 18, 2011
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--It came as no surprise when teacher Motoko Onodera rushed into the face of danger to check on the safety of students after the Great East Japan ...
March 18, 2011
SENDAI--A South Korean rescue team combing through the Gamo area of Sendai's Miyagino Ward has found mud-covered furniture, broken dishes, futons and clothing in the rubble,...
March 17, 2011
Aid providers and local government officials struggled Wednesday as temperatures plunged in the disaster zone in the northern Honshu region.
March 17, 2011
Fearful and struggling to make themselves understood, many foreign trainees are having a difficult time coping in the aftermath of Friday's mega-earthquake and making contact...
March 17, 2011
In natural disasters, the elderly and the sick are among the the most vulnerable.
March 16, 2011
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--Stranded and suffering in her broken house for about four days after the tsunami struck, a 75-year-old woman in Iwate Prefecture was rescued Tuesday.
March 16, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--As the hours ticked by and it became less likely that survivors would be found, a "miracle" happened in this city strewn with rubble and debris.