Epoch Times
March 9, 2012 A journalist watches the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Feb. 28. Recent studies conclude that the accident was entirely preventable. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images) Sunday marks one year since disaster struck in...
BBC
Drumming for Japan 8 March 2012 Last updated at 22:42 ET In Japan towns that were badly affected by the tsunami are now getting the chance to experience and play traditional djembe drums from Africa. It's part of a care programme being offered by the...
Foreign Affairs
Houses swept away in the wake of the tsunami. (Kyodo / Courtesy Reuters) On March 11, 2011, I was awakened at 1:45 am by a call from the White House Situation Room reporting that an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale (subsequently raised...
Foreign Affairs
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan in Tokyo as he feels an earthquake in the upper house of parliament on March 3, 2011. (Toru Hanai / Courtesy Reuters) My father was an engineer, and when I was a child, he told me the story of Prometheus, a famous...
The Independent
On Sunday it will be exactly a year since the one of the most powerful earthquakes on record struck the north-east coast of Japan, triggering a massive tsunami. The Japanese National Police Agency confirmed 15,850 deaths and thousands injured and...
Epoch Times
March 8, 2012 Workers are standing near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture in late February. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images) Japan's devastated Fukushima prefecture may be the site of the world's...