survivors

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 12, 2012
One year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011.
December 30, 2011
A visit to the disaster areas in winter shows just how much we lost in the Great East Japan Earthquake.

November 14, 2011
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...

July 18, 2011
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...

March 22, 2011
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...

March 21, 2011
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...

March 13, 2011
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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