tsunami
December 16, 2011
French entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre was also interested in botany and wrote on the subject. His "Histoire de la Buche: Recits sur la vie des plantes" (The story of the log)...
December 15, 2011
While the inspirational “miracle” pine tree of Rikuzentakata cannot be saved, its legacy will live on due to the efforts of concerned foresters.
December 15, 2011
MORIOKA--A local printer has put out a calendar featuring scenic photos of Iwate Prefecture taken shortly before the March 11 disaster, hoping the images will help local...
December 14, 2011
Internet search engine operator Google Inc. released images on Dec. 13 that give detailed views of landscapes in areas hard hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
December 14, 2011
The so-called miracle pine tree, the only one to remain standing among tens of thousands on a beach inundated by the March 11 tsunami, will no longer be a symbol of restoration ...
December 13, 2011
A bereaved father who lost his two children and both parents in the March 11 disaster refuses to give up hope and is trying to console the souls of those who perished.
December 13, 2011
NATORI, Miyagi Prefecture--As Norihiko Kuwayama, a local doctor specializing in psychosomatic medicine, leads some students back to Yuriage Elementary School here for the first ...
December 11, 2011
MORIOKA--When Masuo Murayama was hovering over the city of Rikuzentakata in a police rescue helicopter on March 11, he felt that the huge earthquake didn't have that much of an ...
December 08, 2011
YOKOHAMA--The historic coastal city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture faces the prospect of being wiped out by tsunami at some point.
December 06, 2011
Not a few members of the government panel looking into the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are skeptical about Tokyo Electric Power Co. pointing the finger...
December 04, 2011
Despite being caught up in the March 11 quake and nearly drowning in the ensuing tsunami, a vacationing elderly German couple hopes to return to Japan someday and repay the...
December 03, 2011
Tokyo Electric Power Co., in an interim report released Dec. 2, set out the line of defense it will attempt to hold against accusations of failures leading up to and during the ...
November 30, 2011
Higashi Nippon Broadcasting Co., which is based in Miyagi Prefecture, has produced a documentary on the March 11 earthquake and killer tsunami.
November 26, 2011
IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--Eight and a half months after it was deluged by a tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake, a shopping center in Iwaki reopened its...
November 26, 2011
Higashi Nippon Broadcasting Co., which is based in Miyagi Prefecture, has produced a documentary on the March 11 earthquake and killer tsunami.
November 17, 2011
Some of the bridges swept away by tsunami during the Great East Japan Earthquake had been pushed up by powerful flows--as opposed to being moved horizontally--before being...
November 16, 2011
Ei Koishi was born in rural Japan when the Meiji emperor still ruled. She never learned to read or write, but that never mattered too much.
November 09, 2011
In March 2002, Tokyo Electric Power Co. revised upward the height of potential tsunami and took precautionary measures at its nuclear plants. The new maximum height was 5.7...
November 08, 2011
The body of a man missing since the March 11 disaster has been found in a crushed car that had been stored at a temporary junkyard since August.
November 06, 2011
OFUNATO, Iwate Prefecture--Industry giant Taiheiyo Cement Corp. has resumed operations at its factory here for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.