School staff were concerned that the children were not old enough to hear about the Great East Japan Earthquake and the towering tsunami that killed 1,761 Rikuzentakata residents, including seven ...

The life-preserving backpack is the brainchild of newspaper delivery agent Joji Shimizu who was left dumbfounded by the loss of life at a public elementary school in northeastern Japan as a ...

The town had been completely wiped out by the earthquake and tsunami, and as I talked to the people and listened to their stories, I felt like I had to come back... I had to immortalize these tales.

"Kataribe" or story teller, Rumi Miyakawa (left) and professor of Touhoku Fukushi University Yoshihiko Watanabe (right) Source: Rumi Miyakawa/Yoshihiko Watanabe Survivors of the 2011 Japan tsunami ...