By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2011 MINAMISOMA, Japan — Hoshi Jyunichu lives in a nuclear ghost town. On a recent afternoon, he calmly swept the entrance…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2011 MINAMISOMA, Japan — Hoshi Jyunichu lives in a nuclear ghost town. On a recent afternoon, he calmly swept the entrance…
Students and teachers at Ookawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Japan, knew just what to do in an earthquake. Yet nearly 100 of them died as the tsunami swept in.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times March 21, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Los Angeles Times NAKANOSAWA, Japan — They covered the body with a child’s blanket, a fluffy blue-green…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2011 TOKYO — Snow had fallen at dawn one recent morning and the tombstones were dressed in white when Masako Hiraiwa…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH by the Globe and Mail TOKYO — At the seemingly fragile age of 76, his story is the stuff…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, February 22, 2011 TOKYO — For Hoki Tokuda, the whole crazy affair was like an inside joke her ex-husband, the late author Henry…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2010 TOYOTA CITY, Japan — All six Toyota veterans around the table agreed: The memo they were about to send to…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, January 26, 2010 PHOTOGRAPH by Japan Times TOKYO — Masatoshi Shimbo has always felt more than a bit paternal toward the changeling Roppongi…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2009 PHOTOGRAPH by the Oceanic Preservation Society TAIJI, Japan — Keiko Hirao sits on pebbly Whale Beach in the late morning…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, September 10, 2009 HYAKURI, Japan — Crouched in his lush green rice fields on this agricultural plain northeast of Tokyo, Masaru Umezawa works…