The life-preserving backpack is the brainchild of newspaper delivery agent Joji Shimizu who was left dumbfounded by the loss of life at a public elementary school in northeastern Japan as a ...

"Kataribe" or story teller, Rumi Miyakawa (left) and professor of Touhoku Fukushi University Yoshihiko Watanabe (right) Source: Rumi Miyakawa/Yoshihiko Watanabe Survivors of the 2011 Japan tsunami ...