A Day in the Life: Shadowing survivors six years later
Five of us left the hostel at 5:30 a.m. on the morning of May 26, each carrying a camera and something to shield us from Tokyo’s rain. We...
My afternoon with Keiji Fujimoto, Part 2
By the time I was drowning in the introspection that I can barely spell, I realized we should go to the meeting spot for our interview --...
Getting around Tokyo
Zachariah Bryan and Jana Wiegand found out the hard way that Tokyo's train and subway system can be difficult to navigate. Without being...
My afternoon with Keiji Fujimoto, Part 1
I’ve spent the last five years perfecting the art of the interview. I’ve learned the right questions to ask. I’ve become a master of...
A tour of Asahi TV
Whirring, blinking, clacking. These sounds accompany the production of a bustling evening news broadcast of Asahi TV. Seven of us on the...
Have you experienced an earthquake?
That was the question posed to us when we stepped into the Honjo Bosai-kan Earthquake Museum, run by the Tokyo Fire Department. A couple...
Sanja Festival in Askusa, Tokyo
The importance of home to the people of the Asakusa districts in Tokyo was on display during the Sanja Matsuri Festival during our first...
Photos from the Ota Market
The Tokyo Ota Market is all business weekday mornings. Sellers and buyers fill stands to outbid each other for the best salmon, cucumbers...
Finding resilience in Libby and Fukushima
On the weekend of April 7th a group of reporters, photographers and videographers went up to Libby to discuss the asbestos disaster that...
Tomodachi means friend
Last fall, students from the UM to Fukushima group sat around a campfire with students from the Japanese Student Association (JSA),...