The district was engulfed by waves more than 10 meters high when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck off the coast of the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, unleashing the tsunami.
Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.
School staff were concerned that the children were not old enough to hear about the Great East Japan Earthquake and the towering tsunami that killed 1,761 Rikuzentakata residents, including seven ...