People across Japan have prayed and stood in silence to remember the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the nation one year ago.
Tokyo Police have arrested seven men as part of its investigation into the £1.1bn Olympus accounting fraud scandal. Amongst them is the company’s former president, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa.
Japanese prosecutors search offices of the camera giant and homes of former executives as part of an investigation into a $1.7bn accounting scandal.
In our final Bodleian treasures feature, Faisal Islam assesses the significance of a 1613 trade deal between England and Japan – “of incredible importance to Britain’s political and economic history”.
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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.
Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki’s Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.
On the day journalists are taken to the Fukushima nuclear plant, devastated by March’s tsunami and earthquake, Alex Thomson meets some of the families evacuated to Tokyo in the wake of the disaster.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Japan’s tsunami-hit towns to witness the world’s largest recycling operation.
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Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson meets the international volunteers helping to the people of Ishinomaki clear-up after the tsunami.
Channel 4 News returns to the tsunami zone to chart Japan’s recovery following the disaster.
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson takes to the seas with Japan’s fishermen whose livelihoods were devastated by the tsunami.
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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.”
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.
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.
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.