Fifteen years ago, on a bitterly cold March afternoon, a tremendous 9.0 megathrust earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the country’s history, erupted in the Pacific Ocean, just 72 kilometers away from the Tohoku region of Japan. The ensuing tsunami that struck the coastlines of Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima Prefectures reduced many towns to rubble. […]

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