By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2011 ISHINOMAKI, Japan — Hana Suzuki would have been in the fifth grade this year and her older brother, Kento, in…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 8, 2011 ISHINOMAKI, Japan — Hana Suzuki would have been in the fifth grade this year and her older brother, Kento, in…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 6, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times OGATSU, Japan — The slender woman in a puffy black ski hat and camouflage…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, December 4, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times NAMIE, Japan — Kazuo Okawa’s luckless career as a “nuclear gypsy” began one night…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, July 16, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times ISHINOMAKI, Japan — For months now, the drill has been the same: Marmaru Oikawa…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by Tom Coulton TOKYO — They were two old friends catching up over coffee, retirees swapping stories and gasping…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2011 TOKYO — Everyone waited, the pressure building, potential energy set to become kinetic. Suddenly, the light changed and vehicles vanished…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2011 PHOTOGRAPHS by the Los Angeles Times RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan — Futoshi Toba arrived at the hillside Buddhist temple just after dawn,…
By John M. Glionna and Kenji Hall, Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times SENDAI, Japan — For the first time since the magnitude 9…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2011 FUTABA, Japan — The radiation gauge beeped, signaling that isotopes were in the atmosphere. As our SUV followed a line…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2011 TAGAJO, Japan — Tsutomu Suzuki’s world is 6 feet long and 12 feet wide, a crude refuge he and his…