Great East Japan Earthquake
September 17, 2011
Although Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda personally intervened to finesse a tax hike proposal to pay for rebuilding after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the ruling Democratic...
September 16, 2011
HIROSHIMA -- Hikaru Isozaki believes his photographs of Hiroshima trees that survived the 1945 atomic bombing will give hope to the survivors of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
September 16, 2011
What does "home" mean to you? Is it a place, a feeling, or other people?
September 16, 2011
Nonlife insurers are leaning toward ending liability coverage for the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which would complicate compensation payments if another emergency...
September 15, 2011
Toyota Motor Corp. announced Sept. 13 that its output in North America has fully recovered to levels before the Great East Japan Earthquake.
September 15, 2011
SENDAI--Nippon Steel Corp. said Sept. 14 it has found a way to turn sludge into soil for civil engineering works with 2.5 times the strength of usual soil.
September 15, 2011
Twelve Mitsubishi F-2 fighters used by the Air Self-Defense Force were damaged beyond repair by the March 11 tsunami and will be scrapped, the Defense Ministry said.
September 14, 2011
ICHINOMIYA, Chiba Prefecture -- Revelers at the annual Kazusa Junisha festival here had good reason to feel a special bond with tsunami-stricken northeastern Japan this year.
September 14, 2011
A government panel is considering a 4-percent increase in corporate tax, along with temporary hikes in income tax, to help pay for reconstruction following the Great East Japan ...
September 14, 2011
The politician Hayato Ikeda's (1899-1965) behavior and attitude changed after becoming prime minister. Before entering office, he was reputed to be bureaucratic and arrogant....
September 14, 2011
Still going strong at 100, centenarian poet Toyo Shibata published her second anthology on Sept. 13, with many poems focusing on the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake...
September 13, 2011
Rest easy and deeply probably best sums up Dr. Takuro Endo's philosophy.
September 13, 2011
With the passing of the seasons, we are sometimes reminded of the absence of people we loved.
September 13, 2011
Officials of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency warned of possible deadly levels of radiation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant if the venting of pressure at a...
September 12, 2011
NATORI, Miyagi Prefecture -- Akane Ito still cannot bring herself back to the place where she became a symbol for the human misery in the aftermath of the March 11 Great East...
September 12, 2011
Yuka Kobayashi hopes that her daughter, born a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake in a quake-hit area, will learn about the disaster and speak about its meaning someday.
September 12, 2011
NEW YORK -- On Sept. 11, 2002, 60-year-old Tokyo art director Koji Mizutani was in the U.S. East Coast pursuing an art project he had begun three years earlier.
September 12, 2011
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture -- Takahiro Kanno, orphaned by the Great East Japan Earthquake, is working on an idea to give his younger brother hope for the future. He wants...
September 10, 2011
OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture--Hundreds of people lined the pier of this quake-hit community on Sept. 10 to welcome the No. 8 Ohama Maru, a new fishing boat bought to replace...
September 10, 2011
Nearly 40 percent of the 56 elementary and junior high schools in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, hardest hit by the March 11 disaster, did not specify evacuation...