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The Compass: What Happened Next: What Happened Next: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011

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Kamaishi City Devastation

20/12/2017 GMT

What Happened Next: The Japanese Tsunami, 2011

What Happened Next

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How did people rebuild their lives after the devastating Japanese tsunami of 2011?

In the most earthquake ready country on earth – Japan - a massive tsunami in 2011 hit two schools in Kamaishi and Okawa. At one everyone survived; at the other 74 children were killed. What went wrong? 

We hear gripping contributions from pupils at both schools, including Mai Ogasawara and Tetsuya Tadano; location recordings from Mai Nishiyama and Yu Wada Dimmer on the aftermath of the giant wave; plus interviews with Richard Lloyd Parry, author of Ghosts of the Tsunami and Robert Muir-Wood, author of the Cure for Catastrophe.

(Photo: Cherry blossom covers trees amid tsunami devastation in Kamaishi City, 2011. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

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