NYT article

This article on the continuing disaster in Fukushima Prefecture is heartbreaking and worth a read. I encourage you to look around, at the NYT, at English-language papers from Japan, and other countries, to get a balanced look at this issue. This story, and this disaster, are far from over.

Asahi.com article: "Is a unique fishing culture lost forever?"

Just wanted to pass along a link to an Asahi Shinbun article:

"The locals' familiar scenery simply vanished in an instant, completely different to the gradual changes that would have happened under normal circumstances."