Taking time to meet with survivors and observing first hand the progress in reconstruction during visits to that beautiful region provides lessons on the deeper meaning...
The American ambassador to Japan when the triple disaster struck a decade ago, he says, “Property can be destroyed, but the human spirit cannot be destroyed.”
Japan’s ruling elite — including some in the media — sentenced disaster victims to death years earlier by refusing to allow the Japan Self-Defense Force to...
Preoccupation with the coronavirus might make people forget the rebuilding of lives in Fukushima, says the author of Tokyo Ueno Station and owner of Full House...
It’s a mark of how deep the links run between Japan and Taiwan, that, among those in Taipei who attended to hear tsunami survivors, were some...
There’s a 90% chance of an M7 class quake off the Miyagi area within 30 years, and a high 70% chance of one on the subduction...
“When I saw the effects of the disaster, I thought that life here would be irrevocably changed,” she recalls, “but the people here refused to give...
“The safety and security of any city is not solely down to the efforts of the organizers. Rather, safety is secured via the cooperation of tenants,...
Determined survivors are reconstructing their cities from the Tohoku Earthquake, while cleaning up from the latest tremor, preparing for the Olympic Torch Relay and planning to...
Life is not easy here. It never has been and never will be. The courage is humbling. What is COVID-19 when you’ve been through 3.11?
The 2020 Games will be the "Reconstruction Olympics and Paralympics," and organizers and JOC officials have repeated that message since the IOC awarded the Games to...
“What has the disaster taken from people?” asked photographer Shoko Hashimoto. “What effect will it have on their daily lives, their values and inner selves?”