3.11, one year on: survival stories
The 3/11 quake has left almost 20,000 people dead or missing. But it has also hundreds of thousands of refugees and survivors to extraordinary destinies. Here are some of them.
Family
Japanese tsunami survivors six months on – interactiveIn the weeks after the March 2011 tsunami the Guardian interviewed seven survivors. Half a year on, they tell us how they have learned to...
Divorcee raising orphaned nephew | The Japan Times OnlineWhen the March 11 quake and tsunami orphaned thousands of children in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, in the majority of cases r...Artifacts
300-year-old house to be preserved in museum after surviving tsunami | The Japan Times OnlineMINAMISANRIKU, Miyagi Pref. - A house more than 300 years old on the Miyagi Prefecture coast that barely withstood the March earthquake a...
Statue lost in tsunami, found afterward — twice | The Japan Times OnlineMORIOKA, Iwate Pref. - A Buddhist statue in a small fishing neighborhood in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, has led a charmed life, repeating...
Tsunami artifacts prove popular | The Japan Times OnlineKAMAISHI, Iwate Pref. - A 100-meter-long freighter sitting on a pier, a crumbled seawall once dubbed the Great Wall, and the sole survivi...
Tsunami-struck museum starts recovering collection | The Japan Times OnlineA pile of small display cases lies in the dirt outside the Rikuzentakata City Museum. With their glass tops smashed into a thousand shard...Businesses
Tohoku's sake breweries one year on | The Japan Times OnlineThe narrow, winding road that leads to Senkin Shuzo, a small sake brewery in the tiny town of Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture, is icy and trea...
After Tsunami, Can a Sweets Shop Make a Comeback ...Oct 18, 2011 ... WSJ s Linda Blake reports. ... from a hilltop as his sweets shop and factory in Rikuzentakata, Japan were destroyed by...
March 11, One Year On: Against the Odds, A Fukushima RestaurantIn 2009, Kenji Suzuki came up with a plan to open new restaurant in Tokyo's ultra-competitive dining market by mid-2011. It was to have a...
Rebuilding Japan after the tsunami - one soy sauce business at a timeIn one town devastated by the tsunami, some 400 temporary housing units and a soy sauce business offer hope. But some 4,000 more units ar...Community
Superheroes cheer children in tsunami zone | The Japan Times OnlineIshinomaki Miyagi Pref. - The battle between the buggy-eyed blue superhero and the evil sea monster and his ninja henchmen was a brief bu...
Street market ties together a tsunami-hit community | The Japan Times OnlineOfunato, Iwate Pref. - The irreverent back-and-forth starts almost immediately when sellers arrive at the morning market around 6 a.m. "Y...
How one village defied the tsunami | The Japan Times OnlineFUDAI, Iwate Pref. - In the rubble of the northeast, one small village stands as tall as ever after the tsunami. No homes were swept away...
Temblor brings hope and tears to zoo | The Japan Times OnlineThe Great Eastern Japan Earthquake on March 11 affected the animals in Ueno Zoo in Tokyo in both negative and positive ways. The most neg...Relief and volunteering
Disaster brings out best in people, communities | The Japan Times Online"The Towering Inferno." "Deep Impact." "The Road." Hollywood's notion of how communities react to a disaster is unequivocal: People panic...
Cleanup effort enters new phase | The Japan Times OnlineSince the Golden Week holidays in early May, fewer volunteers have gone to the Tohoku region to help it clean up from the devastation cau...
Second Harvest rallies support for Tohoku | The Japan Times OnlineBy 9 a.m. on Thursday morning, March 24, several delivery trucks have deposited boxes of emergency supplies in front of the Taito Ward, T...
