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, 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, 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…
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…