Ishinomaki was mauled more than any other municipality by the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011. Close to 4,000 residents lost their lives.

Last December, a section of an exterior wall at the Okawa Elementary School Ruins in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, fell off. The tsunami that hit the school, which now forms part of ...

I visited Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture ... to the public as a tsunami memorial site, and a memorial museum has also been built in Okawa to highlight the extent of ...