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3-11 Remembered: A School Principal’s Story—Part 2

Read Part 1 The Tsunami struck Arahama at 15:55, 69 Minutes after the Earthquake. What did you se…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 12, 2025

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan Honshu interviews Japan Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Tohoku Region (Japan)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

3-11 Remembered: A School Principal’s Story—Part 1

Even 14 years after 3-11, there are surreal images from that disaster that I can’t forget—countless…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 11, 2025

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan Honshu interviews Japan Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Tohoku Region (Japan)

Kazuhiro Kawasaki ~ Professor Emeritus at Evergreen State College — Part 1

It has been 60 years since he crossed the ocean at the age of 22 to become a painter. Once a young …

Keiko Miyako Schlegel • June 18, 2024

artists generations Honshu immigrants immigration Issei Japan Kazuhiro Kawasaki migration Miyagi Prefecture postwar Seattle Shin-Issei United States Washington World War II

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

Remembering 3.11 in 2016: Tohoku no Shingetsu - Part 2

Read Part 1 >> When can we expect to see Tohokuno Shingetsu here in Canada? Hopefully this fall a…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 11, 2016

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan documentaries earthquakes filmmakers films Honshu Japan Japanese Canadians JPquake2011 Linda Ohama Miyagi Prefecture Sendai Tohoku no Shingetsu (film) Tohoku Region (Japan)

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Remembering 3.11 in 2016: Tohoku no Shingetsu - Part 1

This year, March 11th marks the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 10, 2016

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

Kizuna: Nikkei Stories from the 2011 Japan Earthquake & Tsunami

Grateful Crane Ensemble’s Goodwill Tour to Tohoku, Japan

“How was your trip to Japan?” It’s a question I’ve been asked several times since we returned from …

Soji Kashiwagi • July 10, 2014

2011 Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami, Japan communities earthquakes Grateful Crane Ensemble Honshu Ishinomaki Japan Japanese Americans JPquake2011 Minamisanriku Miyagi Prefecture music songs Tohoku Region (Japan)

Canadian Nikkei Series

Lorne Spry On Being a Blue-eyed Canadian Living in Sendai, Japan

The intent of this series to look a little more closely at the Nikkei community from a cultural per…

Norm Masaji Ibuki • March 13, 2014

British Columbia Canada Canadian Nikkei Series Caucasians Discover Nikkei Hakujin Honshu Japan Lorne Spry migration Miyagi Prefecture Nikkei Richmond (B.C.) Sendai United States World War II

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