iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011

The Japanese Architect, or How to Be the Voice of People After the Disaster

Andrea González | Posted 03.25.2013 | World
Read More: Iwate Prefecture, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Miyagi Prefecture, Kumiko Inui, Fukushima, Tohoku, Architecture Global Aid, Toyo Ito, Sou Fujimoto Architects, Ubasuteyama, World News
Andrea González

From my experience as an architect in the reconstruction of Tohoku and as a member of the architecture office of SANAA in Tokyo, I have witnessed the precarious conditions and needs of the Japanese society in northern Japan since March 2011.

Read Whole Story

Learning From Japan's Disaster

Christal Smith | Posted 05.13.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Early Warning System, Japan Tsunami 2011, LA RICS, Emergency Preparedness, Japan Earthquake, Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake Anniversary, Los Angeles News
Christal Smith

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and a delegation of first responders from throughout California recently returned from a fact finding mission to the earthquake torn areas of Northern Japan to learn lessons that can be applied here.

Read Whole Story

Confusion, Lack Of Information, Miscommunication In Fukushima Reponse

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 05.09.2012 | World
Read More: The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Tsunami Survivor, Video, Japan Rising, Japan Earthquak, Japan Tsunami Anniversary, Japan Earthquake, Fukushima, Japan Tsunami, Fukushima Meltdown, Slidepollajax, Japan Earthquake Anniversary, World News

TOKYO — Just four hours after a tsunami swept into the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan's leaders knew the damage was so severe that the rea...

Read Whole Story

Japan Tsunami Survivor Yoriko Miura: 'My Daughter Died'

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 03.09.2012 | World
Read More: Tsunami Survivor, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Japan Tsunami Anniversary, Japan Earthquak, Japan Rising, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Slidepollajax, Japan Earthquake Anniversary, World News

One year after the tsunami and earthquake that devastated the northeast coast of Japan and left thousands of people dead, Robert Michael Poole and pho...

Read Whole Story

'We Survivors Are Lucky'

Huffington Post | Chris C. Anderson | Posted 03.10.2012 | World
Read More: The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Tsunami Survivor, Japan Rising, Japan Earthquak, Japan Tsunami Anniversary, Japan Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, Slidepollajax, Japan Earthquake Anniversary, World News

One year after the tsunami and earthquake that devastated the northeast coast of Japan and left thousands of people dead, Robert Michael Poole and pho...

Read Whole Story

Japan: Seven Months After the Cataclysm

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.11.2011 | World
Read More: Fukushima, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Germany, China, The M Generation of Japan, Chernobyl, Japan, Prime Minisger Yoshihiko Noda, World News
Patrick Takahashi

I leave Japan today for the Netherlands, exactly seven months after the Great Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Cataclysm. In a previous adventu...

Read Whole Story

9/11 Was Also the Six Month Anniversary of Japan's Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami

Christal Smith | Posted 11.12.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Preparedness Month, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Japanese Consul General, Junichi Ihara, Japan, Earthquakes, Japan Earthquake, Japan Disaster Preparedness, Japan Tsunami, Disaster Preparedness, Los Angeles News
Christal Smith

I asked Japan's Consul General, who was marking his last full day as a member of the diplomatic corps in LA, to tell us what lessons we can learn from Japan's catastrophe.

Read Whole Story

Why Worry About Fukushima When Hiroshima and Nagasaki Are Safe?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.10.2011 | World
Read More: Fukushima Nuclear Reactors, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, Fusion, Chernobyl 1986, Hiroshima 1946, Little Boy, Nagasaki 1946, Sakura, Fat Man, World News
Patrick Takahashi

It's now just past a month since the Great Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Cataclysm, starting with "Hawaii Tsunami, Again" on March 11. I lan...

Read Whole Story

The Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: The Aftermath

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Fukushima, The Great Chile Earthquake of 2010, Tokyo, The Great Sumatran Earthquake of 2004, Sendai, Japan, The Great Tohoku Earthquake of 2011, World News
Patrick Takahashi

This is part two of my reportage on the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which began with my post, "Hawaii Tsunami, Again." To refresh your memor...

Read Whole Story