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 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, 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, 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 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, July 16, 2009 SADO ISLAND, Japan — Charles Robert Jenkins is running late. He hurries into work at the souvenir shop to a…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, February 14, 2009 TOKYO — Junichi Sato’s face clenched when he recalled opening the reeking box of whale meat — all 50 pounds…
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times, February 3, 2009 KUMIHAMA, Japan — As master brewers have done for 13 centuries before him, the sake factory boss is everywhere at…