children
December 03, 2011
Photojournalist Ryuichi Hirokawa's 17th annual calendar depicting the smiling children who live near the doomed Chernobyl nuclear plant is particularly poignant and meaningful...
November 11, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Six hundred singing children riding on a steam train brightened the quake-ravaged landscape near this northern city on Nov. 10.
October 25, 2011
Traces of radioactive cesium have been discovered in schoolchildren in Fukushima Prefecture, according to the Minami-Soma municipal general hospital.
October 24, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture -- A granite statue of a mother and child was unveiled Oct. 23 at Okawa Elementary School, which lost 84 pupils and teachers in tsunami triggered...
October 22, 2011
Reflecting the falling birthrate in Japan, the average number of children a married couple has dipped below 2.0 in 2010 for the first time since the government started the...
October 15, 2011
Hot lines for kids are burning hot, but the bulk of calls are not getting through.
October 12, 2011
MINAMI-SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Children arriving for the first day of school on Oct. 11 at Aoba Kindergarten in the Haramachi district of Minami-Soma were greeted with more ...
October 10, 2011
I look forward eagerly to reading tanka poems by two young sisters whose works appear frequently in the Asahi Kadan poetry section of the vernacular Asahi Shimbun. That feeling ...
September 28, 2011
ONAGAWA, Miyagi Prefecture -- A bit more than child's play was at work here Sept. 27 when the playground of the Onagawa Daini Elementary School was lit up like the night sky.
September 24, 2011
They are a bit like Weebles, the famous plastic toys that wobble but don’t fall down, but they have been enjoyed by Japanese children for about 400 years.
September 16, 2011
Architect Hiroshi Naito believes the devastation wrought by the Great East Japan Earthquake poses a fundamental question for his profession.
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 07, 2011
Smiles have returned to the faces of children in the Tohoku region, six months after their lives were surrounded by death, destruction and despair from the magnitude-9...
September 07, 2011
A short poem titled "Asobimasho" (Let's play together) consisting of only 20 hiragana characters goes: "If we forget names/ Why don't we just say/ 'Let's play together'/...
September 05, 2011
WAKAYAMA--Search efforts were under way in western Japan on Sept. 5 for 55 people missing after torrential rains triggered by a powerful yet slow-moving typhoon left 24 people...
September 01, 2011
KOFU--Nearly 150 children were exposed to excessive levels of radiation during examinations at Kofu Municipal Hospital during the past 12 years because a radiologist...
August 29, 2011
Apparently, some types of frogs lay thousands of eggs and leave them to care for themselves, while others produce smaller numbers and devote themselves to painstakingly caring...
August 27, 2011
The education ministry and Fukushima prefectural government will begin operating a computer system from early October that will provide live Internet data on radiation levels...
August 19, 2011
An orphan's fund for children who lost their parents in the Great East Japan Earthquake, established by eight heavyweights such as architect Tadao Ando and conductor Seiji...
August 18, 2011
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--A survey of more than 1,000 children and babies living near the quake-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has produced an alarming...