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January 2014

  • Cities: Ishinomaki 1, river 2014

    Cities: back from the brink
    Ishinomaki: new communities rise from tsunami's devastating divisons

    Thrown together in temporary housing and unknown parts of the Japanese city after the 2011 quake – will new groups return to their former ways or stay among their newfound friends?

February 2013

  • Okawa primary school in Ishinomaki

    Japan disaster relief effort boosted by 'goodwill gold rush'

    Anonymous donor from northern Japan sends eight gold ingots worth £160,000 to Ishinomaki, where 3,000 people died

December 2012

  • A man watches footage from Ishinomaki, and an alert sign that reads,'Tsunami! evacuate!

    Earthquake and tsunami hit north-eastern Japan – video

    An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the richter scale struck off the coast of north-eastern Japan on Friday, shaking buildings as far as Tokyo

March 2012

  • Japan disaster anniversary: a boy lights a candle at a memorial service in Koriyama

    Japan marks first anniversary of earthquake and tsunami

    Japan's emperor leads nation's mourning as Tokyo comes to halt to remember tsunami, earthquake and nuclear victims

March 2011

  • THE GUARDIAN    SUZANNE GOLDENBERG

    Japan earthquake survivor's grim search for his mother amid devastation

  • People eat at an evacuation centre in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture

    For Japan disaster survivors, trust is as badly destroyed as the landscape

  • Japan tsunami survivors found

  • Ishinomaki

    Japan tsunami: A shortage of petrol and food but many bodies to bury

  • Japanese nuclear plant hit by fire and third explosion

  • Japanese tsunami survivors return to wrecked city - video

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