Alex Thomson
A haunting return to tsunami-ravaged Minamisanriku
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Minamisanriku, a Japanese town devastated by the tsunami in March.
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The ‘humbling strength’ of Minamisanriku’s mayor
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb, one of the first foreigners to reach the tsunami-hit Japanese town of Minamisanriku, writes about his return and the mayor faced with impossible decisions.
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Minamisanriku: Japan’s tsunami-hit ground zero
Alex Thomson reports from the devastated port Minamisanriku. He says in 30 years as a war correspondent – covering over 20 wars and several major earthquakes – he’s never seen anything on this scale.
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Inside Minamisanriku: ‘some kind of Armageddon’
Alex Thomson reports from the Japanese port town of Minamisanriku, devastated by the tsunami. Around 10,000 of its people are feared dead – and yet survivors are surprised to see foreign help arrive.
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Best news coverage Bafta for Channel 4 News
Channel 4 News is recognised by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) as its special programme on the Japan earthquake wins the organisation’s news coverage category.
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What are you doing on Sunday night?
This is a devastating portrait of the empires of men and the faith in them, gone in those terrifying minutes. All with the genuine camera-shakes, the screams or ‘Run!! Run!!’ From those who did – to those, caught in the lens that day, who did not.
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It’s not just mud
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson meets the international volunteers helping to the people of Ishinomaki clear-up after the tsunami.
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When you lose everything, ordinary life is very important
There is a sense here of bizarre optimism from the school’s vice-principal. He says students are adjusting to the fact that their hometown has been obliterated by the triple-whammy of earthquake, 60 foot tsunami and then the entire coast sinking by 70 cms into the Pacific ocean. And why? Because, says Vice-Principal Takaki Sato: “When they lost everything, they found that normal life was very important. So they will start again.”
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Tsunami revisited: interactive map
Eight months on from a devastating tsunami, Channel 4 News returns to Japan. Follow our team’s journey live on our map with the latest photos, and videos as they travel through the disaster areas.
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The Japanese tsunami town on the move
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to the Japanese town of Minamisanriku to find that rebuilding from the ruins of the tsunami is not an option.
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Japan's tsunami towns still 'worse than war zones'
Channel 4 News cameraman Stuart Webb has covered several wars around the world but says the destruction wreaked by the Japanese tsunami is far worse – even eight months after it happened.
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From seafaring to seaweed in shattered town
These are quietly spoken patient people, well used to working to the moods of the sea, where storm and tide intervene against the wallet and bank balance.
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Kesennuma – a tale of two towns
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to the fishing port of Kesennuma to find that much has been done following the tsunami – but much more remains to be done.
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Tsunami revisited photo gallery
Flattened towns, floating cars and fallen buildings: images from the Japanese tsunami shocked the world. Now, as Channel 4 News returns, follow the team’s journey, in pictures here.
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Don’t forget your passport
A sewing kit, sleeping bag and don’t forget your passport. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson on his essential kit as he returns to Japan’s tsunami zone eight months after the disaster.
