Japan Earthquake
Encountering hope and faith in the upshot of Japan’s great earthquake
Students from Jesuit universities in Indonesia, Philippines, Korea, Timor-Leste and Japan spent two weeks learning about post-disaster community recovery from the experience of Japan. Through...read more
Japan a year after the earthquake
Prayers and memorial services were held across Japan on March 11 as the country marked the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake and tsunami that...read more
Earth, Fire, Air, Water
Human and environmental devastation caused by floods in Australia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka and by earthquakes and their aftershocks in New Zealand, Japan and...read more
Rediscovering my Jesuit identity
Jody Magtoto SJ was in Japan in May, helping in the relief effort for victims of the tsunami. He reflects on how he rediscovered his...read more
Caritas leads ‘tsunami of solidarity’ in Japan
The earthquake and resulting tsunami that killed some 14,000 last March in Japan has caused another tsunami, this time of solidarity and outreach, said the...read more
The Sound of Hope
When the rector of the Jesuit scholasticate in Tokyo, Fr Juan Haidar, asked me whether I was interested in volunteering for relief efforts of Caritas Japan, I...read more
Mission to Fukushima
She sat quietly at the corner bench. The crowd was pressing in that small omise (a videoke snack bar which draws memories from times past...read more
Reflections on a Relief Mission
A group of volunteers from Tokyo spent the last week of March in Sendai, helping out at the emergency centre set up by the Sendai...read more
Second report from the Provincial of Japan
Ten days have passed since my first report on the situation in Japan immediately after the earthquake and tsunami of March 11. The number of...read more