EditorialSayoko Takahashi returns home after feeding the red-crowned cranes in her backyard on the island of Hokkaido, in Kushiro, Japan, March 1, 2022. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialCommon whitlow grass, Erophila verna (Draba verna). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialHealth care workers at the Daisen Rehabilitation Hospital in Houki, Japan, collect used adult diapers to be recycled into pellets on Oct. 7, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialStores in Tokyo that have been shuttered because of the pandemic. The weak economy and the country’s Covid response have eroded the popularity of the Liberal Democrats. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialMakoto Inoue at Ocho Taqueria, the restaurant he borrowed heavily to open in 2018, near the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Aug. 6, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
Editorial Part of a roughly 245-mile sea wall, designed to protect against future tsunamis, near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on March 4, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialA home sits abandoned, surrounded by felled trees, in Namie, a town in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, March 4, 2021. (James Whitlow Delano/The New York Times)
EditorialMarine recruits Coulter Whitlow, left, and Jacob Jones do mandatory exercise at a Marriott hotel near the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego on Oct. 13, 2020. (Ariana Drehsler/The New York Times)
EditorialCommon whitlow grass, Erophila verna (Draba verna). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.