Take, for example, Victoria Cortes, an emergency management planner for Henderson County, North Carolina. A few days before ...

Scenes of devastation from the Tohoku region stunned the world after the tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake slammed into the northeastern coast on March 11, 2011. But now ...

A full day after wildfires broke out in this northeastern Japan city, residents on Feb. 27 could not find any signs of relief ...

It was almost eight months after the tsunami when Mercy Corps organised games and activities ... Together, Mercy Corps worked with communities to develop risk management plans, rebuild critical ...

After his shop in Rikuzentakata, Japan was destroyed two years ago by a tsunami, he opened a temporary one. But red tape has kept him from permanently rebuilding. WSJ's Daisuke Wakabayashi reports.

Six months after the tsunami, the story is indeed a mixed one with much work already done to help victims recover and rebuild their lives and livelihoods but much work also remaining to be done. What ...

Rebuilding lives through provision of food and shelter was important, but even more important was the need for counselling for people to deal with the trauma they had suffered. This became an ...

Twenty years after dual disasters, Nias is reshaped again. Churches of Christ have dedicated thousands of dollars and hours ...

where officials pledged continued support for rebuilding. The 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan’s northeastern coast on March 11, 2011 killed about 20,000 people and ...

After the 2011 tsunami, the central government put together ... initially sought to respect local residents’ intentions in rebuilding efforts. But he admitted that they could not afford to ...

After that we are second class citizens," lamented ... the government should heed the needs of the disabled particularly in the rebuilding of many new towns battered by the tsunami. Speakers said the ...

which underwent significant rebuilding after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The trip was 100% funded by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and administered by the U.S. Japan Council to host ...