Today I visited an exhibition at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt and came across something that I want to share with you.

Suntory adds to its support for the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Effort by bringing together 71 volunteer artists to sing and boost people's morale. This video is an end to end edit of the 30 and 60-second ( Read more... )

A few hundred yards from the seashore, on top of a small mound of earth, Japanese flags flutter in the brisk, chill breeze. There is a giant fir tree that is twisted and mangled but still alive, an ancient standing stone and some wooden stakes inscribed with prayers.

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This short documentary was filmed in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, in November. There are interviews with survivors and those working to rebuild the city after it was devastated by the tsunami.

It's only fifteen minutes long, and I can't recommend watching this enough. It's such a real view of what is still happening there.


Then and Now from Paul ( Read more... )

The Meteorological Agency said Thursday that 6,757 aftershocks were felt in Japan after the March 11 disaster through Dec 31 ( Read more... )

Eight months after the Great East Japan Earthquake and as temperatures drop with the onset of winter, police continue to search for the missing, having pledged to return as many people as possible to their families ( Read more... )

Eight months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated eastern Japan, many people who lost their homes are still living in temporary houses ( Read more... )

This website was shown to me by the lovely khysmet this weekend and I hope you'll all find it as fascinating.

Japan quake map

It's an animation showing all the earthquakes that have hit Japan since 1am on March 11th - the date of the Tohoku earthquake.

Watch how slowly it starts, and then what happens from 14:46....

And, here's a good news story!

Honest Japanese return $78million in cash found in earthquake rubble

Japanese citizens have shown incredible honesty in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that brought the country to its knees.

( It's the Daily Mail. Expect some exaggeration )

When the tsunami and earthquake hit the Tohoku area on March 11th, it caused a lot of death and destruction. The areas hit by the disaster have been working hard the last five months to recover and return to normality, but it is a struggle ( Read more... )

Survey spotlights kids who lost parents in quakeThe Yomiuri Shimbun ( Read more... )