Ishinomaki

Several large boats are shown on their side and washed ashore following a tsunami as shown from across a body of water.

It’s been 10 years since Fukushima. What’s it like to rebuild in a city that ‘doesn’t exist’?

March 11, 2021Fukushima 10 Years Later

The World revisits the Saeki family in Ishinomaki, Japan, which was one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country on March, 11, 2011.

A woman is shown standing and wearing a full blue medical protective outfit with several people walking past her in blurred motion.

The pandemic, one year later

March 11, 2021Top of The World

The coastal Japanese city of Ishinomaki, before the Tsunami... and today.

In search of an owner… our reporter tracks down a Japanese diver nearly devastated by the 2011 tsunami

September 22, 2015Development

Ishinomaki, Japan following the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Marco Werman: The tiny item I kept amid a sea of destruction

March 11, 2015Environment

A Year After the Tsunami, Slow Progress on Rebuilding in Japan

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Shelter Communities in Post-Tsunami Japan

August 15, 2013Development & Education

How one man leads in crisis to become the de facto “mayor” of his shelter.

Ghost Dive Shop

August 15, 2013

“There are these virtual ghosts of what the town used to be.”