The tsunami took a particularly heavy toll on ... The other community that turned down the proposal was Mone, a fishing community in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Of Mone’s 52 houses, 44 were ...

Some local governments, like Kesennuma city and Miyako city in Iwate ... official of Yamamoto in Miyagi Prefecture. After the 2011 tsunami, many of the ruined buildings were destined to disappear.

In Kesennuma, Shiota Kenichi looks after a playground that was built in 2012. He narrowly escaped death in the tsunami and lost his home and his business. Shiota, who has a son, reached out to ...

Utsumi Naoko's life may have been saved by the spread of her son's Twitter post saying, "My mother and many children are stranded on the third floor of a community center in Kesennuma City ...