When caregiver Kazutoshi Fujimoto first visited the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, he was volunteering because he had heard the recovery from the March 2011 quake and tsunami was going slow. The decision turned out to be a life-changing one because it led him to ...

On barren land in the Kamiosabe district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, where many homes were swept away by the tsunami spawned by the March 2011 earthquake, a brand new wooden building has become the local community center. Sporting a sky blue exterior, the facility known ...

As the oldest member of a group performing the Omagarihama lion dance, Shinichiro Tsuda, 77, feels a powerful duty to preserve the tradition that stretches back more than 300 years in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. "I would like to continue to hand down this tradition," Tsuda ...