Quake and Tsunami
March 11, 2012
Kanon Kumagai was pushing herself to the limit in a long-distance race at a school event last November when she "felt" her parents and older sister--who all perished in last...
March 08, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--For nearly a year, the “miracle pine” has stood as an imperfect symbol of hope amid the devastation wrought by the Great East Japan...
March 08, 2012
A magnitude-7 class earthquake in Tokyo Bay could cause much stronger shocks than previously thought, according to the science ministry.
March 07, 2012
KESENNUMA, Miyagi Prefecture--It's not the Rias Ark Museum of Art's usual pieces, but the barrels that have swollen due to heat, stuffed animals and dolls covered with mud and...
March 06, 2012
MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture -- Searching through piles of bodies after the March 11 tsunami, Kenji Sato was struck by the thought -- he could easily have been one of them,...
March 06, 2012
Despite safeguards put in by Japan Railways, more than 100 passengers are expected to be killed in derailments of Shinkansen bullet trains if a major earthquake strikes Tokyo,...
February 27, 2012
The Great East Japan Earthquake created chaos in the skies, forcing 86 passenger jets to find new destinations and 14 to issue emergency landing declarations, transport...
February 27, 2012
The Meteorological Agency plans to forecast long-period earthquake ground motions, which maintain much of their momentum and can violently shake high-rises far from the...
February 22, 2012
Studies by a project team of the science and technology ministry indicate that the Tokyo area could be hit by an earthquake with a maximum seismic intensity of 7 on the...
February 15, 2012
OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture--Scientists are coming to the assistance of a coastal city ravaged by tsunami, with two experimental projects aimed at cleaning contaminated seawater...
February 12, 2012
When I encountered Isao Takahashi two days after the March 11 disaster during my coverage of the calamity, he stood aghast.
February 11, 2012
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has called on local governments across the nation to accept debris from quake-stricken northeastern Japan to help share the enormous burden of...
February 11, 2012
Asahi Shimbun photographer Toshiyuki Tsunenari's picture of a distraught woman surrounded by debris from the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake won third prize in the General ...
February 10, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture— Eiji Yoshida had long kept secret his video footage of the tsunami engulfing buildings in this northeastern city. For the 68-year-old former...
February 07, 2012
MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--A sake shop swamped by the tsunami in this coastal city and a shochu distiller that was damaged by a volcano eruption in Nagasaki Prefecture are...
January 31, 2012
Even though about 1,500 family photographs gathered from the debris of the March 11 tsunami are no longer identifiable, Munemasa Takahashi thought they still could tell a...
January 24, 2012
Diving equipment maker Zero Co. has developed an underwater tsunami alert system to help keep divers safe.
January 17, 2012
Climbers and mountain equipment makers from across Japan are sending in boots, sleeping bags and other equipment to get high school students in areas devastated by the March...
January 15, 2012
MORIOKA, Iwate Prefecture--Well-known authors and celebrities provided inspirational messages for a booklet to encourage high school students in Iwate Prefecture affected by...
January 05, 2012
The Tokyo metropolitan government will launch in April a 10-year project to rebuild areas crammed with wooden buildings to mitigate possible catastrophic fires, government...