Re-building Tohoku

Every year for the past three years I have written something on this day. I have talked a lot about the ongoing situation in Tohoku …

Within the first few weeks of moving to Japan, we experienced our first earthquake. It was getting close to dinner time at our homestay family’s …

Today is a day of remembrance and reflection. The destruction endured by this great country two years ago was immense, the loss of life unfathomable. …

So by now you probably know how much re-building Japan’s Tohoku region after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of 2011 means to us. If …

Almost two years after the earthquake/tsunami that triggered the Japanese nuclear disaster, those from the Fukushima exclusion zone remain refugees. It’s a little known fact …

Ishinomaki. A place with such heart that I will always come back. ~ As we approached Ishinomaki Station, we starting recalling the memories of these …

Part Eleven of my volunteering accounts in Ishinomaki, a town hard-hit by the earthquake/tsunami of March 11th 2011. ~ The next morning we emerged early …

Part Ten of my volunteering accounts in Ishinomaki, a town hard-hit by earthquake/tsunami of March 11th 2011. ~ Something didn’t quite sit right after returning …

Part Nine of my account of working as a volunteer in Ishinomaki, a town hard-hit by the earthquake/tsunami of March 11th 2011, as part of …