As pop star turned activist Shinji Harada performs around the world, including at a special United Nations concert this month in New York, he is reminded of the importance his hometown of Hiroshima plays as the nexus of a global peace movement 68 years ...

While Taylor Anderson’s life was cut short on March 11, 2011, along with thousands of others caught in the massive tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the coast of Tohoku, the full life she led was a source of inspiration for an American documentarian ...

Two Swiss pilots wowed a New York audience recently as they described their first cross-country flight and 2015 vision of circling the globe — with a possible stopover in Japan — on nothing but energy from the sun. Fresh off their successful two-month, 5,650-km ...

As a toddler, Yuriko Kikuchi lost her sisters and father to illness in California, was raised by relatives in Japan and then returned to the West Coast to face internment at a World War II relocation camp — all before realizing her dream to ...

Nobuteru Uchida hopes his film on Japan’s struggle to recover from the calamity of March 2011 will prompt dialogue and promote tolerance, since public opinion on the risks of low-level radiation remains divided. “I wanted to make a film that has a message — ...

More than a decade ago, Ikumi Yoshimatsu chose the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech to recite at her junior high school in Kyushu and the powerful words stayed with her. “I studied about Martin Luther King, Jr. and I ...

Just before Christmas nine volunteers — including Japanese university students based in the U.S. — donned suits, masks and gloves to rip down the walls of a hurricane damaged home, recalling how the catastrophic quake-tsunami disaster stuck their homeland almost two years ago. “I ...

As Charlie Vitchers looks back over the last decade and remembers nine months overseeing the cleanup of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 , 2001, terrorist attacks, he vividly recalls countless examples of selflessness during New York City’s darkest hours. As the ...

Donald Keene, a prominent Japanese literature scholar, has mixed emotions about permanently leaving his Manhattan home for Tokyo, where he aims to become a citizen. “I will be very, very sorry to leave New York, but I still think my decision is the right ...

Drenched in perspiration, Megan Miller Yoo and about a dozen other students were pushing themselves to new limits during a special Sunday yoga session at a Manhattan studio. Stretching their muscles and testing their flexibility, they intently followed the instructor moving through 26 prescribed ...