Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 14 March
Japan focus: capital city left quaking
The regular frisson of fear that earth tremors produce in Japan.
- 66 results for tsunami
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 March
Japan focus: jitters in the east and continuity in the west
If you happened to have been on any of the crowded bullet trains that left Tokyo for Kyoto, Osaka and Hakata last night, you might have thought that Japan was in the midst of a population boom.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 31 March
Japan focus: Returning to Tokyo
At first it feels reassuringly familiar. The sun is shining in Shibuya, salarymen are rushing around and teens are chatting as they make their way across the famous crossing. But there are telling signs of change.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Tuesday 24 April
Indian anti-nuclear lobby gains steam
Japan’s tsunami-triggered nuclear alert has had particular resonance in India, where nuclear power has been widely embraced as an efficient way to meet the country’s leaping energy demand.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 March
Japan’s emotional recovery will take time
This past weekend, while travelling around Japan’s disaster zone, I found an uplifting story.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Tuesday 15 March
Japan focus: the media onslaught
As the damage unfolded: Tsunami coverage the world was offered live.
Affairs / Travel
Monocolumn
Sunday 24 July
Geothermal exponents and hot spring industry clash over Japan's future
No amount of publicity could persuade the usual crowd of Tokyoites and overseas tourists to the popular springs in the three hardest-hit prefectures – Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 11 March
Remember what’s important
Two years after Japan’s largest post-war disaster its recovery has been astonishing but politics is slowing progress.
Culture / Television
At the scene
Following the March earthquake and tsunami, NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, provided the footage that filled the world’s TV screens. Monocle visits the studios to find out what happened when the disaster drill became real…
The Briefing, episode 96
Analysis of the massacre by a US soldier in Afghanistan and we ask what lessons can be learned from the Japanese tsunami.
Edits / Aviation
Jungle flyer
Susi Air, based in Pangandaran, West Java, was founded by a husband and wife team and came into its own after the 2004 tsunami.
The Briefing, episode 118
Coverage of the Indonesia tsunami scare, discussion of Romney vs Obama in the US elections, and also a look ahead to Greece’s elections.
Section D, episode 4
Focusing on how Japanese designers are coping after the Tsunami and we go on a shopping spree for Japanese goods in Sydney, London and LA.
The Briefing, episode 222
We discuss China’s political crisis, ask if Japan will pay for tsunami debris on the US west coast, and chat aviation news with Peter Morris.
The Globalist, episode 112
Thirty years since the Falklands which countries still back Britain? Plus, we learn about the research warning of another tsunami in Japan.
Midori House, episode 95
Red Cross psychiatrists discuss the effects of the Japanese tsunami, we learn about the building of Mosques, and take a culinary tour of Berlin.
Affairs / Defence
Force of nature
Few anticipated the enormous scale of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last March. Monocle talks to Eiji Kimizuka, chief of staff for the Ground Self-Defense Force, to learn how the rescue effort continues one year…
The Monocle Daily, episode 223
Sasha Issenberg reports from the Democrat convention, we analyse Budapest and Baku’s diplomatic spat, and learn how nations can learn from the Japanese tsunami.
Design / Property
Making shelter
An association of housing manufacturers and builders is providing prefabricated homes for people in the areas worst hit by Japan’s tsunami and earthquake. Monocle visits Rikuzen-Takata, where over a third of the town needs…