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The schools that were saved were built on higher ground. When the 39-metre-high wave came, the students were spared. Many of their parents and siblings were not.
Orphaned in a wall of debris that swept Japanâs coast on March 11, 2011, the scores of students who lost their family members that day are now young adults rebuilding both their lives and their communities.
Waves from the March 11, 2011 tsunami hit residences in Natori, in Japanâs Miyagi prefecture.
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âIt was a normal winterâs day. Everybody was doing what they normally did until the clock hit 2.46pm,â said Takuya Tokairin, a student living near Sendai, the capital of Japanâs Miyagi prefecture.