Ten years and about 750 articles later, here’s why the Kodomo Shimbun recently won the Eiji Yoshikawa Culture Award
Its presses damaged by the tsunami, Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun used pen and paper and posted updates at the city’s evacuation centers 10 years ago.
Political activists and the media continue to nurture a psychology of anxiety even 10 years after the crisis.
“After the earthquake, there were children that could not laugh, and could not go anywhere, and were very afraid.” They’re the reason Chiho Shimura startedーand continuesーKokoro...
The energy and resolve to carry this out will become a source of power to the nation, given that natural disasters that will continue to hit...
The Okawa Elementary School had a disaster protocol, but the instructions in case of a tsunami were unhelpfully vague. It led to the biggest loss of...
Oshima residents are taught: “If you feel an earthquake, immediately get to high ground and do not go back for anything or delay for any reason.”...
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...
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,...
