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 ...
Yahoo

Japan city votes to destroy ship that became a symbol of tsunami

KESENNUMA, Japan - A stranded fishing boat that became a symbol of the devastation of Japan's 2011 tsunami has long divided a northeastern coastal city — between those who wanted to keep it as a ...
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.
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 ...