Akira Miyasada drives his Kobe-registered car along the deserted beaches in the Ogatsu district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, stopping to speak with locals and listen carefully to their stories from the devastating March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
He hears accounts of loss, damage and struggling fishing businesses, interspersed with lessons on local history.
At one of the beaches, he even stops to help scallop farmers.