RIKUZENTAKATA, Iwate Prefecture—A museum destroyed in the 2011 tsunami disaster is finally back in business after exhibits inundated with seawater and mud were restored with help from experts in and ...

On March 11, 2011, I was working at my job as a curator at the Museum of Oceans and Shellfish in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, making entries into the database for the museum’s collection of ...

A pine tree that became a symbol of hope after it survived the March 2011 tsunami in north-east Japan was opened to the public in the devastated town of Rikuzentakata on Wednesday. The 250-year-old ...

Other than the concrete skeletal remains of a three-story office supply store, there was nothing on the expansive field. Just acres and acres of dried grass. As he was about to drive by the abandoned ...

The coastal town of Rikuzentakata in southeastern Iwate Prefecture became an international symbol of the devastation wreaked by the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, ...

But what was lost goes far beyond a monetary measure. You can't put a value on lives and homes. Some communities may never recover. As we continue our series on the disaster, we visit the town of ...

A pine tree, believed to be 260 years old, and which survived the March 11 tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, is dying because its roots have been rotted by salt water and its branches have ...

RIKUZENTAKATA, IWATE PREF. – This is the first of a four-part series looking at the lasting impact of the March 11, 2011, disasters. It was a fateful moment. At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, a ...

Two weeks ago, Deputy Managing Editor Stu Seidel flew to Tokyo to oversee NPR's coverage of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan. This past weekend, he visited northern Japan to see ...

A year after it was all but destroyed, Danielle Demetriou reports on the recovery of the Japanese coastal city of Rikuzentakata, where nearly 2,000 people died. Danielle Demetriou In Rikuzentakata 10 ...