OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--As the massive tsunami surged over a 6.4-meter seawall, it swallowed the town below. Along the railway embankment, people scrambled for their lives. The harrowing scene ...

Located on the shoreline of Otsuchi Bay in Iwate prefecture, the ICRC had been directly in the tsunami’s path. “The wave reached the third floor of the main building,” says Kawamura ...

OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--An inn here that became one of the most iconic symbols of the deadly force of the tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake is to be torn down ...

2011 earthquake and tsunami, calls her late friends from 'the phone of the wind.' | REUTERS 'The phone of the wind' in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. Many survivors of 3/11 the unconnected phone line ...