MINAMISANRIKU, Japan (AP) For nearly a decade, a Japanese hotel has been giving bus tours to show visitors the history of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan’s northern Pacific.
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For nearly a decade, a Japanese hotel has been giving bus tours to show visitors the history of the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan s northern Pacific coast in 2011.
The 9.1 magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it generated on March 11, 2011, killed about 18,000 people and devastated the coastline. Buildings in Minamisanriku were flattened, and more than 800 people in the city were killed or went missing.
The memorial park near former local Disaster Prevention Center where 43 workers died in 2011 tsunami in Minamisanriku. Photo / Eugene Hoshiko, AP
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