survivors

Memories of wife, daughters help disaster victim...
Photos and souvenirs are a poignant reminder of the loss suffered by Mitsugu Nitta and his son Yu. (Shingo Kuzutani)
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--After losing his wife and young daughters in the earthquake and tsunami disaster two years ago, Mitsugu Nitta was inconsolable.
VOX POPULI: We must cherish the human ties that bind
One year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011.
EDITORIAL: Disaster survivors carry grief into the...
A visit to the disaster areas in winter shows just how much we lost in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Artist on a mission to sketch 1,000 quake survivors
A badminton club member at Inawashiro Junior High School in Inawashiro, Fukushima Prefecture, looks embarrassed as she is shown her portrait by Nakagawa. (Miyuki Kanno)
KORIYAMA, Fukushima Prefecture--New York-based artist Naoto Nakagawa made his fourth trip to disaster-stricken areas earlier in November in pursuit of his goal of sketching...
Quake memorial festival in Tohoku draws huge crowds
Dancers perform the Morioka Sansa Odori in a parade during the Tohoku Rokkon Festival in Sendai on July 17. (Masaru Komiyaji)
SENDAI--A two-day special event featuring six major summer festivals in the disaster-ravaged Tohoku region attracted about 366,000 visitors, overwhelming organizers who had...
Rescued 16-year-old says pair survived on 'snacks
Jin Abe, left, and his father, Akira (Photo by Pool)
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Jin Abe, the 16-year-old boy rescued with his 80-year-old grandmother nine days after her flattened home was swept away by a tsunami, put on a...
Foreign residents split on leaving, staying in...
Foreign residents prepare to embark on a bus leaving Sendai. (Photo by Nasuka Yamamoto)
Encouraged by their families or governments back home, droves of foreign residents are fleeing areas in northeastern Japan hard hit by the March 11 quake and tsunami. But...
Stories of desperation, hope from hospital in...
Yuka Kobayashi holds her newborn daughter at Iwate Prefectural Miyako Hospital on Sunday. (Teruo Kashiyama)
MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--Perched atop a hill overlooking this Pacific coastal city, the Iwate Prefectural Miyako Hospital was spared the worst of the tsunami that inundated...
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