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Getting a new life out of old things
Beneficiary Profile 2: Mrs and Mrs Kumagai
by Francis Markus

2012/04/12

The heated table in the middle of Mrs and Mrs Kumagai’s tiny living room is loaded with freshly cooked vegetables, pickles and traditional glutinous rice sweets, or mochi.
Fleeing from the tsunami with a dog
Beneficiary Profile 1: Masako Horoiwa
by Francis Markus

2012/04/11

As she stands in the porch of her temporary house, Masako Horoiwa holds her dog tightly. The poor terrier is shivering with cold, but that is perhaps only part of the reason for her tight grip.
A Day of Remembrance
by Patrick Fuller

2012/04/02

At 2.46 pm precisely, the early warning sirens echoed around coastal towns and hamlets all along Japan’s North-East coast as people observed one minutes silence to remember those who died...
Living in the shadow of Fukushima
by Patrick Fuller

2012/03/26

At first sight the Azuma Nursery school in Fukushima city appears like any other Japanese nursery school; immaculately clean, well organised with happy children looked after by...