Scenes of devastation from the Tohoku region stunned the world ... after Japan’s worst postwar natural disaster, signs of destruction continue to disappear. “Before and after” aerial photos ...

Towards the end of the Second World War, as the United States considered their options for a possible invasion of Japan ... stages of an epic decade-long rebuilding process directed by warbird ...

Each catastrophe forced the Japanese to bury history and rebuild ... remains an awkward subject in Japan. The nation’s rapid reinvention after World War II has often been attributed—by ...