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A group of monks pray during the anniversary of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. Picture: H.MASA/Flikr

One year on: How can we measure Japan’s recovery?

By Anna Watanabe Sun, Mar 11, 2012 5:27PM UTC View Comments

At 2.46pm Japan stopped everything – even its trains, the arteries of the nation – to remember the disaster that occurred one year ago. But as Japan fell silent, the world’s media returned. And this time their words have not been as sympathetic. Fly-in, fly-out stories have been filed from areas with the most visual...

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One year on: How will you remember March 11?

By Anna Watanabe Tue, Mar 06, 2012 5:14PM UTC View Comments

The program is called Japan’s Tsunami: Tales of Terror and it’s going to be aired four days before the anniversary of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake. I haven’t seen the program so I shouldn’t be too critical, but I have seen the “exclusive video” before – about three months ago on YouTube: As the one-year...

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Japan marks 6 months since earthquake, tsunami

By AP News Mon, Sep 12, 2011 5:47AM UTC View Comments

Local residents light a candle at a park during a memorial event marking six months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Iwanuma city, Miyagi prefecture, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. Pic:AP

TOKYO (AP) — Up and down Japan’s devastated northeast coast, survivors prayed and communities came together Sunday to mark six months since the massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, a date that changed everything for them and their country. As the world commemorated the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, Japanese...

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Nagasaki remembers A-bomb, US sends representative

By AP News Tue, Aug 09, 2011 2:45AM UTC View Comments

James Zumwalt, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, carries a wreath to the altar set up in Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. Pic:AP

TOKYO (AP) — The United States sent a representative for the first time Tuesday to the annual memorial service for victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of two nuclear attacks that led Japan to surrender in World War II. The U.S. bombing of Nagasaki 66 years ago killed some 80,000 people. Three days...

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Japan’s Hiroshima city marks atomic bombing

By AP News Sat, Aug 06, 2011 5:00AM UTC View Comments

People pray before the cenotaph for the atomic bombing victims before the start of the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Saturday, Aug, 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — The Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday marked the 66th anniversary of the bombing, as the nation fights a different kind of disaster from atomic technology — a nuclear plant in a meltdown crisis after being hit by a tsunami. The site of the world’s first A-bomb attack observed a moment...

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