Recovery
March 12, 2012
The workers at Miyafuji Industrial Co. never gave up even after all 30 of their welding machines were flooded by a 2.5-meter tsunami spawned by the Great East Japan Earthquake...
March 12, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--A nursing home where 36 elderly patients died in the tsunami was illuminated by candles on the one-year anniversary of the disaster.
March 12, 2012
Although more than 5 million people were stranded in the Tokyo metropolitan area following the Great East Japan Earthquake, municipalities and companies are not close a year...
March 12, 2012
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--People living in areas that were devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake have been reaching out to one another and the nation through a flurry...
March 11, 2012
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--This coastal town has been destroyed twice in the past year: first swallowed by a great wave that killed 638 of its people, and then hit with ...
March 11, 2012
Emperor Akihito and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attended a memorial ceremony in Tokyo on March 11, as people across Japan remembered the massive earthquake and tsunami that...
March 11, 2012
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--Naoya Okamoto, who saw his high school washed away in the tsunami spawned by last year's Great East Japan Earthquake, returned here on March 11 ...
March 11, 2012
Business owners in quake-hit areas of Tohoku are haunted by concerns about the long-term viability of their communities, despite the positive effects of the billions of yen...
March 11, 2012
Nearly one-third of people who evacuated after the Tohoku disaster struck a year ago have seen their families torn apart, while about 40 percent lost their jobs, businesses or...
March 11, 2012
Japan on March 11 was remembering the massive earthquake and tsunami on that struck the nation one year ago, killing just over 19,000 people and unleashing the world's worst...
March 11, 2012
Two eye-catching Tokyo illumination events were being held March 10-11 to commemorate a pair of devastating events in Japan's history--one that took place just a year ago and...
March 10, 2012
The government has selected three towns near the disabled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as sites to host interim facilities to store contaminated soil and other debris from...
March 10, 2012
One year after the March 11 quake and tsunami, about 260,000 people in the stricken Tohoku region are still living in temporary housing, and the urgency is growing to secure...
March 10, 2012
Instead of comfort food, major casual retailer Uniqlo Co. is bringing "comfort clothing" to disaster-hit Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, and Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, with the...
March 08, 2012
A fishing vessel washed ashore by the tsunami, a train car lifted from its tracks by a wall of waves and a dimly lit gym packed with evacuees are some of the images forever...
March 07, 2012
Three months after Japan's March 11 triple disaster, a long-time expert on the country arrived in Tokyo to research a book he intended to entitle "Rebirth of a Nation."
March 06, 2012
BANGKOK--A photo exhibition on the destruction and misery caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake nearly a year ago opened here on March 5
March 06, 2012
Sixteen-year-old Mizuki Kanda thinks about the loss of her grandfather, her friends and seniors at her high school--as she paints a field of colorful flowers on walls...
March 06, 2012
While the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami altered the coastal areas of Fukushima, the memories of what once was are preserved forever, thanks to the foresight of the...
March 05, 2012
FUKUSHIMA -- Workers in rubber boots chip at the frozen ground, scraping until they've removed the top 5 centimeters of radioactive soil from the yard of a single home. Total...