National Mar 8, 2021
Photo essay: The seawalls of Tohoku
by Oscar Boyd
Since March 11, 2011, more than 350 kilometers of seawalls have been built along the Tohoku coastline.
National Apr 16, 2014
Community bonds, not seawalls, key to minimizing deaths: 3/11 study
by Ben Dooley
Three years after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku region, a study of the disaster by professors at the University of Tokyo and Indiana's Purdue University suggests the region's hundreds of kilometers of seawalls did almost nothing to save lives, ...