The short film, titled “Aka No Kiwoku,” is a special project commissioned by the Fukushima Map, a publication that ...

FUTABA, Fukushima Prefecture—Two-and-a-half years after evacuation orders were lifted in parts of Futaba, the municipal government is focused on attracting new residents to revitalize the community.

For years,” Tsushima writes, “Mitch had denounced Japan, wishing this hateful country would disappear from the face of the ...

The logo of East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) is seen in this file photo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Shinkansen bullet train services in northeastern Japan resumed Wednesday after a more than ...

Our critic on the month’s best releases. By Alida Becker A new book collects the Paper Magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter’s most treasured belongings, and friends. By Tas Tobey In “The M ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East. By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the ...

In “The Stained Glass Window,” David Levering Lewis delves into his ancestry to create a fuller picture of his family and its place in American history. David Sheff’s new biography, “Yoko ...

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Haruki Murakami is back. More than a comeback, it is a rebirth: that of a short story he wrote in 1980 but never dared publish. Forty years later, this unfinished story has blossomed into a monumental ...

Around 12.1 trillion yen ($82 billion) has already been spent to deal with the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to sources at the Board of Audit of Japan.

A team from NHK-World takes an exclusive look inside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which suffered a triple meltdown in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The disaster ...