Tohoku, Japan News

A 4.9-magnitude quake hit an area near Baeknyeong Island off Incheon, west of Seoul, on Saturday.

In recent years Japanese designer Koji Iyama has created a series of colorful tape installations for the decorative masking tape brand mt .

Last month, Haruki Murakami published a new novel in Japan. Before anyone could read it, the novel broke the country's Internet pre-order sales record, its publisher announced an advance print run of half a million copies, and Tokyo bookstores opened at midnight to welcome lines of customers, some of whom read the book slumped in corners of nearby ... (more)

Fast food: Models dine in a mockup of a JR East restaurant train that will debut this fall in the northeast.

International Medical Corps is a global, nonprofit humanitarian relief organization that has delivered $1.4 billion in lifesaving medical care and training to tens of millions of people across 70 countries since 1984.

Early education: Students at Akagi Elementary School in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, learn about radiation in 2012.

Detectives say the siblings were home alone when the 13-year-old boy found a handgun and shot his younger sister.

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Seiji Yoshimura , who responds to disasters throughout Asia, talks to carpenter Kenji Hoshino at a tsunami-struck house in Ishinomaki, Japan.

From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan ; Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan ; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cardiovascular Center, Cancer Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, ... (more)

In this April 16, 2011 file photo, Wakana Nemoto, 3, standing next to her mother Naoko, receives a radiation exposure screening outside an evacuation center in Fukushima, northeastern Japan.

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Some Jewish organizations and residents are calling on Boulder to reject a request to make the West Bank town of Nablus the city's eighth sister city.

It surfaced on April 17 that a woman in her 60s who served as a lay judge in a burglary and murder case in Fukushima Prefecture suffered a stress disorder after being exposed to evidence that showed a cruel crime scene.

Tohoku travels: Shunsuke Goto, a Waseda University student, looks at the mouth of the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in late February.

The writer Gretel Ehrlich, a longtime passionate student of Japanese poetry and culture, returned to Japan in 2011 after an earthquake and Tsunami devastated the Tohoku coast.

Takumi Kuriyama had four hits and four RBIs, and Ryo Sakata homered and doubled to drive in three as the Saitama Seibu Lions battered the visiting Tohoku Rakuten Eagles 15-1 on Sunday.

The Japanese government is moving to speed up the environmental assessment process for new coal-fired power plants as its power sector struggles with a surging energy bill in the wake of the forced idling of much of the country's nuclear power plants following the Fukushima power plant meltdown in 2011.

A Japanese court has rejected a demand that a city affected by the fallout of the country's 2011 nuclear disaster evacuate its children.

A contact investigation showed that the prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection among other evacuees at the shelter was 20%. Our report underscores the importance of tuberculosis prevention and control after natural disasters.