Director Shinkai gives speech at cinema-free, tsunami-hit city

A special screening here of Makoto Shinkai’s latest feature film hit further strengthened the famed director’s bonds with ...
Oregonian

Jittery Japan rocked by 6.6 earthquake Monday, a month after killer tsunami (Oregonian in Japan)

KESENNUMA, Japan – Normally the muzak version of "Love is Blue," the 1960s pop tune, doesn’t strike fear into the hearts of emergency workers. But nothing is normal these days in Japan, a nation with ...
Nikkei Asia

In Focus: Japan fishing town wrecked by quake seeks to keep its foreign workers

Local governments in Japan struggling with falling populations are at a turning point in their efforts to retain foreign workers as the government prepares to introduce the “Employment for Skill ...
Inhabitat

Update from Kesennuma, Japan: Students Complete Fish Arch and Recovery Efforts Are Under Way

As you may recall, the Fish Arch project was led by a group of students taking Yasushi Ikeda’s lab at Keio University. The group was asked to contribute to the Obon Festival by doing an installation.
Yahoo

Japan city votes to destroy tsunami ship landmark

In this photo taken on Sunday Aug. 11, 2013, flowers are left by a stranded fishing boat, which has become a symbol of the devastation of the 2011 tsunami in the northeastern coastal city of Kesennuma ...
Los Angeles Times

Japan’s fishing industry a major casualty of nuclear crisis

Reporting from Kesennuma, Japan, and Tokyo — Standing on the deck of his 91-foot trawler, veteran fisherman Tomoyuki Kondou winces over reports that radioactivity from Japan’s damaged nuclear power ...