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FEATURE: Japan tsunami survivors trying to return favor 10 yrs on A large photo on display at a memorial museum for the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, shows a 10-year-old boy walking in front of a pile of rubble, his jaw clenched and a bottle of water in each hand. Kaito Matsumoto carries bottles of water on March 14, 2011, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. (Kyodo) The picture of Kaito Matsumoto carrying water from a well at an evacuation ...

Fishers decrease 24% in 3 Japan prefectures hardest hit by 2011 disaster Membership in fisheries cooperatives in the three northeastern Japan prefectures hardest hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami tumbled 24.4 percent after the disaster, sharper than the national average, a Kyodo News tally based on data from their unions showed Thursday. The sharp decrease came as members abandoned the industry after losing their homes or fishing boats in the massive tsunami or evacuating their hometowns d...

The return of pitcher Masahiro Tanaka has raised hopes in Miyagi Prefecture that the Rakuten Eagles will again rise to glory. But for one young survivor of the 2011 tsunami disaster, an earlier encounter with “Ma-kun” proved more valuable than any baseball championship. Tatsuki Sakamoto still keeps a dirt-stained baseball from the event that helped to bring him out of despair and erase feelings of survivor guilt. He was a 12-year-old sixth-grader at Omagari Elementary School in Higashi-Mats...

Visitors look at exhibits shown at the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 20. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) FUKUSHIMA--The museum dedicated to the powerful earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011 that wreaked havoc on the Tohoku region is adding exhibits to balance out its portrayal of the calamity. The Fukushima prefectural government made the announcement on March 2, in the lead-up to the 10th anniversary on March 1...