By HIDEAKI ISHIBASHI/ Senior Staff Writer
March 16, 2021 at 07:30 JST
Tohoku University Professor Fumihiko Imamura examines a levee to block high waves that was destroyed by the tsunami in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 19, 2011, eight days after the Great East Japan Earthquake. (Tsuyoshi Nagano)
SENDAI--Fumihiko Imamura, one of the nation's leading tsunami experts, realized that no textbooks or training could ever have prepared him for the towering waves generated by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake that claimed countless lives in the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan. [Read More]
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.
Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce their special recipes intertwined with their paths in life.
A series based on diplomatic documents declassified by Japan’s Foreign Ministry
A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II