Stay updated with breaking news from Otsuchi. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
In a garden in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, sits an unconnected phone booth. No calls can be made or received, but visitors to the phone booth often linger for hours
Reconstruction and land development in coastal areas of the Tohoku region are nearly complete, 13 years after the destruction caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, but populations have not recovered.
RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture--A 93-year-old woman here who survived the Great East Japan Earthquake seems to have drunk from the Fountain of Youth.
Death can be isolating and dehumanizing. The community of death-care workers in Philadelphia forging a more dignified path for the dying.
A team from Iwate Prefecture is just one of many grassroots campaigns mobilizing to support quake victims.