Obviously a 5 meter high concrete wall can’t do much against a 10+ meter tsunami.
Large parts of the city has been completely wiped out from the map. It’s doubtful they will ever be reconstructed again since it’s just a matter of time before the next killer tsunami hit...
Rikuzentakata was one of the cities hardest damaged by the March 2011 tsunami. About 80% of the buildings got destroyed, and about 2400 people is dead or still missing, out of a population of about 2...
I’m not dead, I’m just in Sweden. Will be back in Japan, and on the blog, soon.
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