Great East Japan Earthquake
March 11, 2013
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--After losing his wife and young daughters in the earthquake and tsunami disaster two years ago, Mitsugu Nitta was inconsolable.
March 11, 2013
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of northeastern Japan.
March 11, 2013
Victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami were remembered in somber ceremonies around northeastern Japan a day before the two-year anniversary, with kites flying in the breeze,...
March 11, 2013
NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture--Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing...
March 11, 2013
About 320,000 people are still living as evacuees because of the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck on March 11, 2011. The exodus from areas affected by the disaster...
March 10, 2013
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Long overlooked in coverage of the earthquake and tsunami disaster, foreign wives and mothers finally have a voice.
March 10, 2013
Eight popular manga artists will compile their new works into a book to raise funds for children whose parents were killed in the disaster that struck northeastern Japan on...
March 10, 2013
An upcoming documentary explores Japan's nuclear crisis through the eyes of an artist who exposes photographic paper to polluted soil and finds it stained with radiation.
March 09, 2013
AIZU-WAKAMATSU, Fukushima Prefecture--Nestled in the picturesque western mountains of Fukushima Prefecture, Aizu-Wakamatsu is rich with the history of feudal and modern Japan.
March 09, 2013
Nearly one-fifth fewer people took hotel rooms in northeastern Japan in 2012 than in 2010, although tourism in other areas showed a strong recovery, government figures show.
March 09, 2013
OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--Eleven-year-old Haruto Sasaki is using his role in a traditional folk dance to reconnect with a community that was wiped out by the 2011 tsunami.
March 09, 2013
The fishing industries of Miyagi, Iwate and Fukushima prefectures employ 60 percent fewer workers today than five years ago, a decline largely attributed to the quake, tsunami...
March 09, 2013
FUKUSHIMA--A citizens group held its 31st anti-nuclear demonstration in a busy shopping district here on March 8, three days before the second anniversary of the triple...
March 08, 2013
As the crisis started to unfold at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, tech-savvy individuals on both sides of the Pacific banded together to help fill the void of information...
March 08, 2013
NATORI, Miyagi Prefecture--Kenji Sakurai often visits the spot where the wall of water two years ago killed his wife and two daughters and swept away the family home.
March 08, 2013
SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--A local couple who lost their son in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster will meet an American man who lost his in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.
March 08, 2013
GENEVA--Japan placed 14th in tourism competitiveness out of 140 nations and regions in the world, up eight places from the previous evaluation in 2011, according to a report by ...
March 07, 2013
A gold replica of the left foot of soccer superstar Lionel Messi went on sale in Tokyo on March 7, with part of the proceeds going to young victims of the 2011 Tohoku disaster.
March 07, 2013
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Even after two years, Takashi Suzuki tries to keep control of his emotions as he prays for his daughter at the family altar each morning.
March 07, 2013
Two years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan and triggered the unprecedented nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...