Recovery
April 30, 2012
The vats of the only unrefined sake maker from Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, are bubbling again, despite a forced evacuation following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
April 29, 2012
FUKUSHIMA--With the help of generous prefectures, Fukushima Prefecture is starting a nine-year plan to restore disaster-prevention coastal forests along a 145-kilometer stretch ...
April 29, 2012
NATORI, Miyagi Prefecture--Elementary school pupils in the Yuriage district here have created a musical instrument from tsunami debris to help them overcome the horrors of the...
April 26, 2012
MIHARU, Fukushima Prefecture--As it has for more than a millennium, a famed cherry tree is once again attracting admirers, whose numbers plunged last year in the wake of an...
April 23, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska--U.S. scientists say that a volleyball and soccer ball that washed ashore on an island may be the first pieces of debris to arrive in Alaska from last year's...
April 18, 2012
Debris produced by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami will be reused not only as materials for furniture, household electric appliances and other products but also for ...
April 18, 2012
More than 1,000 dogs in the disaster-stricken prefectures remain in animal shelters after being separated from their owners last year, putting a strain on officials who are...
April 17, 2012
HIGASHI-MATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Prefecture--A traditional drum concert will be held here on May 5 under 280 blue carp streamers set up by a student who lost four family members in...
April 13, 2012
TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Eighteen saplings of a pine tree that miraculously survived the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami last year are growing at a research...
April 08, 2012
A movie whose production was halted by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture last year has finally made it to the big screen.
April 07, 2012
Aichi Prefecture will accept up to 1 million tons of rubble from earthquake and tsunami-ravaged areas of northeastern Japan.
April 03, 2012
TANOHATA, Iwate Prefecture--Train buffs from far and wide joined local residents at a small rural rail station here April 1 to mark the restoration of services on a section of...
April 01, 2012
Yoshimi Shika looks out at the calm sea from her parents’ house on a coastal area of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, where only the foundations of some buildings remain.
March 31, 2012
Two sculptors are creating a Buddhist statue for a temple that lost its main hall and about 700 parishioners in the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and is in need of an...
March 29, 2012
KAMAISHI, Iwate Prefecture--School officials here initially were hesitant to ask students to write about what they experienced in the tsunami following last March's Great East...
March 28, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Players from the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics held a baseball clinic here on March 27 to support children living in the areas...
March 27, 2012
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Nissan Motor Co. will ask subcontractors to build up their stocks of key parts or diversify production to ensure supplies will not be cut by a...
March 27, 2012
WASHINGTON--One hundred years ago, when Tokyo sent 3,020 cherry trees to the United States as a token of friendship, the Japanese presenters could have never imagined the...
March 26, 2012
Twenty students at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies have produced a multi-lingual website about areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
March 22, 2012
When town officials wanted to hear what children who had been evacuated from a town in the Fukushima nuclear disaster exclusion zone were thinking, they heard a mix of...