PHOTO / WORLD By Xinhua Published: Mar 11, 2021 01:09 PM
Flowers are laid in front of the ruins of the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Japan, March 9, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
The ruins of the Okawa Elementary School is seen in Ishinomaki, Japan, March 9, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
The ruins of the Okawa Elementary School is seen in Ishinomaki, Japan, March 9, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
Visitors watch photos of the school before the disaster displayed at the ruins of the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Japan, March 9, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
A public elementary school in Miyagi Prefecture lost more than 80 lives in the tsunami following the March 2011 earthquake in northeastern Japan. Ten years on, the ruins of the school building still tell the unimaginable tragedy of the calamity.
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This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. The ensuring triple disaster – earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi – killed nearly 20,000 people, destroying dozens of towns, rendering thousands of hectares uninhabitable, and spreading contamination that will take decades to remediate.
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