Martin Fackler New York Times

When Islamic State militants posted a video Sunday showing the grisly killing of a Japanese journalist, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacted with outrage, promising "to make the terrorists pay the price."

At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant's operator said Sunday.

Some are stuck in their homes, fearful of radiation, heeding government warnings to stay indoors, cut off without electricity or phone service. Others want to leave but have no gasoline. Still more, those whose homes were ruined, wait helplessly for evacuation at crowded shelters. All face dwindling supplies of heating fuel, food and water. A week ...

Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck. The tsunami came just over a half-hour later, far exceeding even their worst fears. He and other survivors described a wall of frothing brown water that tore through this town of more tha...

Hirosato Wako stared at the ruins of his small fishing hamlet: skeletons of shattered buildings, twisted lengths of corrugated steel, corpses with their hands twisted into claws. Only once before had he seen anything like it: World War II."I lived through the Sendai air raids," said Mr. Wako, 75, referring to the Allied bombings of the northeast's ...

The tsunami that barrelled into northeast Japan on Friday was so murderous and efficient that not much was left when search-and-rescue teams finally reached Natori on Monday. There was searching, but not much rescuing. There was, essentially, nobody left to rescue. The mournful scene here in Natori, a farm and fishing town that has been reduced to ...

One couple rode out the tsunami on top of an irrigation tower, crammed in with three other people. A man had to abandon his car in a field and run for it. Another couple simply got lucky, riding out the torrents in their house, one of the few in a swath of destruction that inexplicably held together. They began streaming back to this stricken rice ...

Japan reeled from a rapidly unfolding disaster of epic scale on Sunday, pummeled by the death toll, destruction and homelessness caused by the earthquake and tsunami and new hazards from damaged nuclear reactors that were leaking radiation. The Prime Minister called it Japan's worst crisis since World War II.Japan's $5 trillion economy, the third l...

While nuclear experts were grappling with possible meltdowns at two reactors after the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northern Japan, the country was mobilizing a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity, heat or telephon...

Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning as Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake ...

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country and one of the largest anywhere in the last century. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away as the West Coast of the United State...

A massive earthquake struck Japan  on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along the northern part of the country and threatened coastal areas throughout the Pacific. (In Pics: Japan earthquake triggers tsunami)Walls of water swept away houses and cars in northern Japan and pushed ships aground. Trains...

The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including the deadly artillery attack last week on an island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea.At the same time, China  called for an emergency meeting of the six principal countries involved: itself...

The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including last week's deadly artillery attack on a island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea. At the same time, China stepped up its diplomatic efforts to cool tempers in the region, with a senior envoy ho...

Like many members of Japan's middle class, Masato Y enjoyed a level of affluence two decades ago that was the envy of the world. Masato, a small-business owner, bought a $500,000 condominium, vacationed in Hawaii and drove a late-model Mercedes. But his living standards slowly crumbled along with Japan's overall economy. First, he was forced to red...

When Islamic State militants posted a video Sunday showing the grisly killing of a Japanese journalist, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacted with outrage, promising "to make the terrorists pay the price."

At least 45 tons of highly radioactive water have leaked from a purification facility at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, and some of it may have reached the Pacific Ocean, the plant's operator said Sunday.

Some are stuck in their homes, fearful of radiation, heeding government warnings to stay indoors, cut off without electricity or phone service. Others want to leave but have no gasoline. Still more, those whose homes were ruined, wait helplessly for evacuation at crowded shelters. All face dwindling supplies of heating fuel, food and water. A week ...

Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck. The tsunami came just over a half-hour later, far exceeding even their worst fears. He and other survivors described a wall of frothing brown water that tore through this town of more tha...

Hirosato Wako stared at the ruins of his small fishing hamlet: skeletons of shattered buildings, twisted lengths of corrugated steel, corpses with their hands twisted into claws. Only once before had he seen anything like it: World War II."I lived through the Sendai air raids," said Mr. Wako, 75, referring to the Allied bombings of the northeast's ...

The tsunami that barrelled into northeast Japan on Friday was so murderous and efficient that not much was left when search-and-rescue teams finally reached Natori on Monday. There was searching, but not much rescuing. There was, essentially, nobody left to rescue. The mournful scene here in Natori, a farm and fishing town that has been reduced to ...

One couple rode out the tsunami on top of an irrigation tower, crammed in with three other people. A man had to abandon his car in a field and run for it. Another couple simply got lucky, riding out the torrents in their house, one of the few in a swath of destruction that inexplicably held together. They began streaming back to this stricken rice ...

Japan reeled from a rapidly unfolding disaster of epic scale on Sunday, pummeled by the death toll, destruction and homelessness caused by the earthquake and tsunami and new hazards from damaged nuclear reactors that were leaking radiation. The Prime Minister called it Japan's worst crisis since World War II.Japan's $5 trillion economy, the third l...

While nuclear experts were grappling with possible meltdowns at two reactors after the devastating earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northern Japan, the country was mobilizing a nationwide rescue effort to pluck survivors from collapsed buildings and rush food and water to hundreds of thousands of people without water, electricity, heat or telephon...

Rescuers struggled to reach survivors on Saturday morning as Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem. The 8.9-magnitude earthquake set off a devastating tsunami that sent walls of water washing over coastal cities in the north. Concerns mounted over possible radiation leaks from two nuclear plants near the earthquake ...

An 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Japan on Friday, the strongest ever recorded in the country and one of the largest anywhere in the last century. The quake churned up a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland in the northern part of the country and set off warnings as far away as the West Coast of the United State...

A massive earthquake struck Japan  on Friday, setting off a devastating tsunami that swept over cities and farmland along the northern part of the country and threatened coastal areas throughout the Pacific. (In Pics: Japan earthquake triggers tsunami)Walls of water swept away houses and cars in northern Japan and pushed ships aground. Trains...

The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including the deadly artillery attack last week on an island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea.At the same time, China  called for an emergency meeting of the six principal countries involved: itself...

The United States and South Korea began naval exercises on Sunday that were meant as a warning to North Korea for recent provocations, including last week's deadly artillery attack on a island populated by South Koreans in the Yellow Sea. At the same time, China stepped up its diplomatic efforts to cool tempers in the region, with a senior envoy ho...

Like many members of Japan's middle class, Masato Y enjoyed a level of affluence two decades ago that was the envy of the world. Masato, a small-business owner, bought a $500,000 condominium, vacationed in Hawaii and drove a late-model Mercedes. But his living standards slowly crumbled along with Japan's overall economy. First, he was forced to red...