Weekend Herald reporter Michael Dickison grew up in Japan and speaks the language fluently. After last week's earthquake he returned and filed this account of his odyssey through the ravaged countryside of his other homeland...

The family of a Kiwi believed to be staying at an evacuation centre in Japan are still desperately waiting for details.

MFAT has upgraded its advice to New Zealand citizens in quake-devastated Japan, warning Kiwis to leave Tokyo and northern Honshu.

The father of the last New Zealander who was missing in Japan until yesterday thought the chances of son Peter Setter being alive were "tipping in the wrong direction", until the wonderful news of his survival, in one of Japan's worst hit

The headlines proclaiming Apocalypse Now almost demand comparisons with August 1945.

The Government is urging New Zealanders to consider leaving parts of Japan badly hit by last week's destructive earthquake and tsunami, as well as moving further away from the damaged nuclear power plant on the eastern coast.

A Hawke's Bay couple are desperate for news of their missing son who they fear may have died in the Japan disaster. Peter Setter, 45, is the only New Zealander in Japan who authorities have "significant concerns" about, following news

For the Japanese to wheel out their Emperor to make a televised address on the nuclear crisis is virtually unprecedented.

Jim Eagles travels to the edge of civilisation, and stands on the brink of ... nothingness.

Two New Zealand rescue workers in Japan have had to be decontaminated after they were found to have been exposed to radiation after landing at the Fukushima airport.

MFAT still has "specific concerns" about one New Zealander missing in the affected area of tsunami-ravaged Japan.