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 ...

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 ...

In this photo taken on Sunday Aug. 11, 2013, flowers are left by a stranded fishing boat, which has become a symbol of the devastation of the 2011 tsunami in the northeastern coastal city of Kesennuma ...

KESENNUMA, JapanKESENNUMA, Japan — When he was younger, the carpenter picked a spot just off the Shikaori River and built his house. Toshio Onodera chiseled the joints for the wooden roof beams and ...

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.

It’s not the water damage from Friday’s massive tsunami that seems to be the biggest threat to the Japanese city of Kesennuma – it’s fire. Video from a military plane captures large swathes of the ...

KESENNUMA, Japan — Running a business in a battered economy in a tsunami-ravaged community is an exercise of hope and redemption for one man with a noodle shop. “There’s a risk in starting a business ...