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  1. THEN: Oh noo Japanese city destroyed by tsunami😭😭💔
    NOW: Thank God, the Japanese city is clean, the city has been fixed and it is back to normal🤩🥰❤🕋❤🙏

  2. I’m desperately waiting for a documentary about the recovery work in depth. I see bits and pieces. I know Rikuzentakada has terra formed in a gigantic way but haven’t seen the results. I’m especially fond of Minamisanriku and Utatsu. I’ve seen Onagawa but not much from Kamaishi and Ofunato. I’ve watched the videos relentlessly for 4 years.
    I would also be incredibly curious to see survivors who have never been documented. I know the Japanese are very proud and private but feel a great connection to them. I was Stationed in Okinawa in 1982 and Marines were not very appreciated. I had no clue of the history as a young man but would gladly live there now.

  3. Ten years after a tsunami killed more than 18,000 people on the north-east coast of Japan, Noriyuki Suzuki returned to the spot where his daughter was swept to her death.

    Mai was 12 when she died in one of the most harrowing stories to emerge from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. She was at Okawa primary school on the day of what became known as the triple disaster. Instead of leading children up a nearby hill away from danger, teachers decided it was safe to stay.
    “She was small for her age, but even so she loved playing mini-basketball,” he says of Mai. “She always had a smile on her face and she was kind to her younger sister. She had so many friends.”

    Suzuki was at work when the city of Ishinomaki was shaken by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the afternoon of 11 March. After checking on his colleagues, he made his way home, convinced that Mai, whose school was set against hills 4km from the coast, was not in danger.

    But rumours began to circulate that the tsunami had barrelled its way further inland than anyone could have imagined; that entire neighbourhoods had been turned into a muddy wasteland; and that something unspeakable had happened at Okawa.
    “She was small for her age, but even so she loved playing mini-basketball,” he says of Mai. “She always had a smile on her face and she was kind to her younger sister. She had so many friends.”

    Suzuki was at work when the city of Ishinomaki was shaken by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the afternoon of 11 March. After checking on his colleagues, he made his way home, convinced that Mai, whose school was set against hills 4km from the coast, was not in danger.

    But rumours began to circulate that the tsunami had barrelled its way further inland than anyone could have imagined; that entire neighbourhoods had been turned into a muddy wasteland; and that something unspeakable had happened at Okawa.
    “She was small for her age, but even so she loved playing mini-basketball,” he says of Mai. “She always had a smile on her face and she was kind to her younger sister. She had so many friends.”

    Suzuki was at work when the city of Ishinomaki was shaken by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on the afternoon of 11 March. After checking on his colleagues, he made his way home, convinced that Mai, whose school was set against hills 4km from the coast, was not in danger.

    But rumours began to circulate that the tsunami had barrelled its way further inland than anyone could have imagined; that entire neighbourhoods had been turned into a muddy wasteland; and that something unspeakable had happened at Okawa. There was so much information it was difficult to know what to believe,” Suzuki says. “I heard that the area near the school had been cut off by the tsunami, but that it was OK. But as the hours passed, we realised that the tsunami had destroyed the entire town.”

    In all, 74 children drowned, along with 10 teachers and staff who had been entrusted with ensuring their safety in an earthquake-prone region that lives with the ever-present threat of tsunamis. Across Ishinomaki, 3,062 people died and 415 are still missing.

    Hope you enjoy the story to what happened to the 2011 japan tsunami wave

  4. 私は日本人です、私は東日本大震災を経験したことがないのですが、2024年の能登半島地震を経験したことがあります、いきなりテレビで緊急地震速報がなって、でも私は千葉県に住んでいたので、揺れは弱かったのですが、能登半島の地震の強さを想像したら鳥肌が立ちました、皆さんも地震に警戒するようにしてくださいm(*_ _)mBy日本人

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