A kindergarten is ordered to pay ¥177 million to the families of four children killed when their school bus was swamped by the 2011 tsunami as it was being driven toward lower ground.

Thirty months after tsunami devastated the Tohoku coast, residents are still facing a lack of medical services because of delays in restarting damaged hospitals and clinics and the closures of others. To overcome the shortage of medical staff in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, ...

The central government is coming under increasing pressure to step in and help secure more municipal workers for post-disaster reconstruction work amid serious manpower shortages in the northeast, 2½ years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Disaster-hit municipalities are struggling to hire ...

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 ...

Living near the Shioyasaki lighthouse overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Himeka Suzuki was a cheerful girl who from a young age loved to paint and draw cartoon characters with color pencils and crayons. In third grade, she won a prize in a national drawing contest ...

Before the huge tsunami of 2011 virtually wiped it off the map, Rikuzentakata’s pristine beach and luxuriant pine forests were a well-worn stop on Japan’s tourist trail. Now the visitors are returning, but this time they want to see the devastation and the monuments ...

The marooned 330-ton trawler that's become a disaster landmark in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, will be dismantled instead of being preserved, the mayor announces.