The Sanriku Railway Rias Line runs 163km the length of Iwate Pref. in Japan's northeast, from Kuji Station in the north through Sakari Station in the south. The only way to conquer the rugged ...

The Sanriku Coast was the area hardest hit by the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011. Its restored communities are rediscovering their local traditions and the unique beauty of this landscape.

The Meiji Sanriku tsunami, which struck 126 years ago, killed as many as 20,000 people. A stone cenotaph was erected in the village of Toni in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, to mark the disaster ...

KUJI, Japan >> Sanriku Railway Co. is running its special seasonal train this winter, called the Kotatsu Ressha, between its Kuji and Miyako stations on the line in Iwate prefecture.

Still, the photographer turned his camera to the man who had discovered the body of his wife in Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, two days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of Mar ...