The Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011 in Japan

Japanese pensioners are volunteering to work at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to spare the young from the dangers of radiation.

Two months after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, more than 100,000 people still live in evacuation centers, and there’s widespread debris across the northeast. See a slideshow.

The BBC’s Roland Buerk reports on how, two months after the earthquake and tsunami that caused at crisis at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in northeastern Japan, children are back at school.

Survivors of the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan showed great stoicism, following Japanese custom. But psychologists are now worried that not talking about the disaster could lead to long-term mental health problems.

Japanese officials are looking for ways to replace energy lost when the Fukushima Nuclear Plant was damaged in March’s earthquake and tsunami. But experts warn that developing some renewable energy sources, or natural gas could have unintended consequences: new earthquakes and tsunamis.

Another aftershock rocked Japan today, one month to the day since the devastating earthquake and tsunami killed more than 10,000 and left more than 100,000 homeless. We touch down in Kamaishi, on the northeast coast.

Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning today nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast. We speak with an American living in Japan, who tells us what he’s hearing on the ground.

American Jonathan Levine-Ogura lives in Japan and tells us that people living in shelters now need things like shoes and schoolbags for kids going back to school next week after a break.

Japan’s anti-nuclear activists are welcoming the news that Japan’s Prime Minister may reportedly scrap plans to build at least 14 new nuclear power plants. We speak with one activist who doubts the plants would have been built anyway, and describes how some in the movement fault themselves for not preventing the disaster.

Japan’s prime minister, Naoto Kan, today said his country was on “maximum alert” as officials try to bring a nuclear crisis under control. His speech came after plutonium was found in soil samples near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.