March 13, 2012
Atsushi Okudera, chief of The Asahi Shimbun's Shanghai Bureau, has been named a co-laureate of the Vaughn-Ueda international journalist prize for fiscal 2011.
March 12, 2012
As the sound of sirens resounded across Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, at 2:46 p.m., Tomonobu and Midori Mori put their hands together and prayed for the shy girl who grew up to be a beloved teacher.
March 12, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Few people would give up a comfortable life to move to an apocalyptic disaster zone at a time when even residents are leaving in droves. Even fewer would choose to still be there a year on, when most other volunteers have long gone.
March 11, 2012
When push came to shove, members of the Sendai-based rock band Monkey Majik put down their guitars and backed up the messages of love they sing about with action.
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 year's disaster--egging her on.
March 09, 2012
Donald Keene, a famed U.S.-born scholar of Japanese literature, acquired Japanese citizenship on March 8 and urged his new homeland not to forget about disaster victims in the Tohoku region.
March 08, 2012
At age 62, Hiromi Fujita decided to try something new and took up photography as a way to enjoy her retirement years.
March 08, 2012
YANAI, Yamaguchi Prefecture -- Kikujiro Fukushima’s eyes barely see, his ears barely take in sounds and his legs give out on a 100-meter walk with his dog. But when he learned that villages near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were to be evacuated, he knew it was time to summon up his last strength and head over there.
March 07, 2012
Seiji Ozawa, Japan's most famous conductor, is canceling all scheduled performances through to the end of next February in order to recover from a recent spell of bad health that has included bouts of pneumonia, he said on March 7.
March 07, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The weather had warmed up a bit on March 1, but Tetsuya Tadano decides to remain comfortably seated at a “kotatsu” (foot warmer table) covered by a quilt.
March 07, 2012
When it came to "go time," dance squads from two high schools in Japan didn't get stage fright at a national U.S. dance team competition on March 4.
March 06, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--American singer Cyndi Lauper brought smiles to children in this tsunami-hit city on March 5.
March 03, 2012
LOS ANGELES--Fidel Castro said he wants to visit Fukushima next year.
February 25, 2012
Italian photographer Pierpaolo Mittica recalls being immediately struck by a sight that greeted him when he entered a house in the no-entry zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Greeting him was a daily calendar, still showing the date March 11, 2011.
February 24, 2012
Japan’s cherry blossoms were never more poignant than last spring, when stunning canopies of pink and white spread across the Tohoku coast just weeks after the March 11 tsunami had claimed thousands of lives.
February 18, 2012
BEIJING--Six members of pop idol group AKB48 performed in Beijing on Feb. 17, part of the "Vibrant Japan" campaign to mark the 40th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China.
February 18, 2012
SAO PAULO--A woman who lost her right leg to bone cancer as a child is gathering attention in this coastal city with her rousing version of the samba as the Brazilian Carnival approaches.
February 16, 2012
Small in stature but big in talent, Shinji Kagawa has become a key player for Borussia Dortmund as the club goes for a second straight Bundesliga title.
February 15, 2012
Kazuhiko Komatsu, an expert on supernatural demons in Japanese folklore, will take over as the head of Kyoto's International Research Center for Japanese Studies in April.
February 13, 2012
Theaters in the three disaster-stricken prefectures in northeastern Japan on March 11, the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, will offer free admission to the live broadcast of U.S. pop singer Cyndi Lauper’s concert in Tokyo.