noted significant mercury surges in waters off the Sanriku area and other sites in Japan’s northeastern Tohoku region. The water temperature there was more than 10 degrees higher than usual in ...

The museum also features stone markers inscribed with lessons from past tsunami disasters found on the Sanriku coast of northeastern Japan along the Pacific Ocean. Chief curator Masaru Kumagai ...

Living in Tokyo, it’s easy to forget that so much of Japan is covered in forests, and I’d had no idea that the Sanriku coast was so beautiful. My memories of Tohoku had previously been tainted by what ...