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Remembering: The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 10 Years Later

This past Feb. 13th, there was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Fukushima. I froze. Cold sweat and a f…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 11, 2021

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes Japan JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase) Tohoku Region (Japan)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Tenth Anniversary of Japan’s Tsunami Disaster – A Visual Story of Animal Rescue

We are fast approaching the tenth anniversary of the horrific earthquake and tsunami disaster that …

Lexie Boezeman Cataldo • March 5, 2021

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan animal rescue earthquakes JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

The Mexican Piñatas and Blankets Sent to Japan in Support of the Victims of the Great Earthquake of 2011

It was early in the morning of March 11, 2011, and Midori Suzuki was having trouble sleeping. That …

Sergio Hernández Galindo • March 10, 2017

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan artists earthquakes Honshu Japan JPquake2011 Kesennuma kizuna (phrase) Mexico Midori Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture Tohoku Region (Japan)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

In Minamisanriku, Surveying the Aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

On my last day in Minamisanriku, a small group of us from World in Tohoku signed up for a tour of t…

Nancy Matsumoto • Sept. 20, 2016

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes Honshu Japan JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase) Minamisanriku Miyagi Prefecture Nancy Matsumoto Tohoku Region (Japan) World in Tohoku (organization)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

The current situation of the victims and the government

On February 14, 2015, just before the fourth anniversary of the disaster, I visited one of the vict…

Tsutomu Nambu • March 10, 2015

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan earthquakes governments Honshu Japan JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase) Miyagi Prefecture policies

Alan Nishio: One for All

The smiling gentleman being roasted at the sold-out event to raise money for the youth-empowering p…

Sharon Yamato • Feb. 20, 2015

activism Alan Nishio kizuna (phrase) Redress movement social action

The Nikkei Community Internship: Strengthening the Future of the Three Remaining Japantowns

It is incredible to imagine that there had been a staggering 43 Japantowns throughout the nation at…

Sakura Kato • Aug. 11, 2014

California California Japanese American Community Leadership Council communities Fred J. Fujioka internships Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Japantowns judges kizuna (phrase) law Little Tokyo Los Angeles Nihonmachi Nikkei Community Internship Sakura Kato students United States Wallace Tashima

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Monkey Majik and the Yoshida Brothers’ “SOS Tohoku Relief Tour”

“I was scared of old, distant memories Now I’ve become strong and tall If the night…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • Jan. 16, 2013

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan Aomori Prefecture Canada earthquakes Honshu Japan JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase) Miyagi Prefecture Monkey Majik (rock band) music musical instruments Sendai shamisen Tohoku Region (Japan) Tsugaru Tsugaru shamisen Yoshida Brothers

Kizuna’s Youth CAN Program: Investing in the Future of Little Tokyo

On a summer evening in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo, the yelling and antics of 27-year-old Craig Ishii…

Lawrence Lan • July 13, 2012

California California Japanese American Community Leadership Council Craig Ishii Elena Inamine Japantowns kizuna (phrase) Kristin Fukushima Little Tokyo Los Angeles Nikkei Community Internship Scott Shima students United States youth Youth Community Action Network

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

The Essence of “Kizuna”: One Month after the Tohoku Disaster

I am writing this on April 24th, more than a month after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • May 11, 2011

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan Canada disasters earthquakes Fukushima Prefecture Honshu Japan JPquake2011 kizuna (phrase) media Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Tohoku Tohoku Region (Japan)

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