One is Kerobe, a fishing community in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture. When the tsunami struck, 25 of 68 houses in Kerobe were either partially or totally destroyed. Almost all the 64 boats that the ...

The Meiji Sanriku tsunami, which struck 126 years ago, killed as many as 20,000 people. A stone cenotaph was erected in the village of Toni in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, to mark the disaster ...

Kamaishi, in Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan is home to a steelworks with a history of 130 years, and is known as a "city of steel." Before the end of World War II, Kamaishi suffered a ...