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Tohoku residents try to keep memory of 3/11 quake and tsunami alive through VR and wreckage

Junior high school students look around the Ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake Kesennuma City Memorial Museum during a school trip in May. | KAHOKU SHIMPO

Kahoku Shimpo

Jun 10, 2019

Conveying the fear of when a massive earthquake and tsunami strike is no easy feat.

But eight years on from the disaster that shook the nation to its core, schools, municipalities and museums in the Tohoku region devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011 are trying to keep the memory of the national crisis alive and raise awareness of the importance of disaster prevention.

The city of Akita created a tsunami simulation system incorporating virtual reality, with viewers walked through a mock evacuation in the event of a massive earthquake, allowing them to get a more realistic experience of what would happen should a disaster strike.

Tohoku residents try to keep memory of 3/11 quake and tsunami alive through VR and wreckage

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