Recovery
July 10, 2012
Can a stark reminder of a natural disaster ever become an essential part of the fabric of a local community?
July 09, 2012
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered encouragement and praise to young people from Japan's disaster-hit areas as part of an initiative aimed at supporting the...
July 07, 2012
What started fancifully from a single CD and a rock singer's idea to trade it up to a fishing boat, turned into a fairy tale ending for a fisherman in disaster-stricken Otsuchi,...
July 07, 2012
Kazunao Uehara has forestry in his blood.
July 04, 2012
YOKOHAMA--With 100 portraits of people of various nationalities and faiths praying for victims of last year's Great East Japan Earthquake, artist Maki Matsuzawa wanted to...
June 30, 2012
SHIOGAMA, Miyagi Prefecture--Once training for Olympic glory, Miyuki Hatanaka now starts her days in the early morning picking seaweed by hand on Katsurashima island, off...
June 29, 2012
Forty percent of the reconstruction budget of about 15 trillion yen ($189 billion) remains unused, despite the continuing suffering of disaster victims and companies in the...
June 23, 2012
A visually impaired judoka whose home was damaged in the Great East Japan Earthquake has been selected to represent Japan at the London Paralympics, thanks to help from a...
June 22, 2012
HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--On March 11, 2011, the first floor of Hamaichi Elementary School was deluged with water from the tsunami generated by the Great East...
June 20, 2012
Japan boasts striking coastline, but perhaps none is as hauntingly beautiful as the area called Sanriku in the northeastern Tohoku region.
June 19, 2012
The devastation from last year’s natural disasters and the failure to prevent the Fukushima nuclear accident have led to a huge loss of trust in scientists, a science...
June 18, 2012
A boom in sales of sake from the quake-hit Tohoku region is leading the first revival in sales of Japan’s national alcoholic drink in 16 years.
June 15, 2012
KAWAUCHI, Fukushima Prefecture--The population of forest green tree frogs is about to explode in Kawauchi. Government leaders hope the same thing will happen with the human...
June 14, 2012
Tanka poems by readers of The Asahi Shimbun about the Great East Japan Earthquake will be displayed with portraits of 1,000 disaster victims at an exhibition in New York.
June 12, 2012
More than 10,000 official documents have been recovered from the muck and mire left behind in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami...
June 12, 2012
KOBE--As a token of gratitude, a dance troupe from the faraway Tohoku region of northern Japan put on a special performance here of a traditional "Shishi-odori" deer ritual.
June 11, 2012
After the Great East Japan Earthquake devastated northeastern Japan, New York-based artist Naoto Nakagawa began to ponder what he could do to help.
June 10, 2012
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--As local dancers performed a tiger dance, a crop of top classical musicians from Britain put on a charity concert in this disaster-stricken town to...
June 05, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--A symbolic figure of the efforts to rebuild in Fukushima after last year's disaster, Yukari Maluhia, leader of the famed "Fukushima Hula Girls,"...
June 04, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--A group of volunteers has been spray-painting colorful flower and fish graffiti on coastal levees and elsewhere to brighten up the city devastated...