FEATURED WORK
20230505 Presumed guilt? Unpacking Japan’s 99.9% conviction rate.
20230310 A lab of their own: How Fukushima moms led charge for radiation data
20221115 In Japan, Unification Church scandal stains integrity of ruling party
20220823 How women are banding together to change Japanese politics
20220415 Cattle farms or bullet trains? Japanese village faces uncertain future
20220309 At 82, she coded an app. She just wanted a game she could win
20211028 Japan’s elections showcase constraints on its democracy
20210712 As Olympics near, a Japanese fishing town waits – to say thanks
20180201 In Japan, baby-at-work fuss highlights deeper issue: few women in politics
20170811 Retirement? No thanks. In ‘graying’ Japan, these women are just getting started
20170309 In Japan, young women’s problems are often ignored. But she’s ready to help
(courtesy of the Bond Project)
20161027 He hadn’t driven much – but began a car-sharing project for tsunami survivors
20160324 A retired lawyer opens first US slavery museum with $8.6 million of his money
John Cummings, the founder of the Whitney Plantation, Wallace, Louisiana
20150730 Keisaburo Toyonaga helps Koreans and other non-Japanese atom bomb survivors
20150628 Why police don’t pull guns in many countries By Sara Miller Llana
20150409 Shizuyo Yoshitomi started a radio station to help immigrants
20141020 Terumasa Akio saw poverty firsthand. Now his charity helps 400,000 children
20140905 Yoon Mee-hyang helps Korea’s World War II sex slaves tell their stories
20140307 Hajime Shiraishi’s tiny but influential OurPlanet-TV keeps focus on Japan’s nuclear disaster
(courtesy of OurPlanet-TV)
20130906 Kyoko Okutani helps women start businesses, skirting Japan’s gender gap
20130503 Seiji Yoshimura rushes to natural disasters to help
20130123 With group effort, Japan suicides fall to 15-year low
20120902 In Japan, better with age
20120723 A Japanese Olympian defies the age barrier
20120307 As Japan marks tsunami anniversary, a fresh spirit of volunteerism
20110510 Japan after Fukushima: village of nuclear evacuees forced to start over – again
20110116 In Japan, starting a second career as a cabby
20100914 Photographer reminds Japanese of their ‘forgotten’ hometowns
20100112 Japan: For $5.50, your own geisha tea ceremony
20091217 Japan’s robot revolution moves from factory to the home
20090217 In Japan, foster parents blaze an unpopular trail
20080213 Japanese men shout the oft-unsaid: ‘I love you’
20071023 Japan revises its history texts
Takehiko Kambayashi 