NATORI, Miyagi -- Participants in a memorial event held here on March 11 for the victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami wrote messages on 311 balloons shaped like doves and ...

In the town of Natori, about 400 people prayed and released ... “I pledge in front of the quake and tsunami victims that we will accomplish recovery at any cost.” A wall of water over 15 ...

Ten months later, Sakamoto visited the Miyagi Prefecture Agriculture High School in the city of Natori. He asked for an opportunity to repair the tsunami-stricken piano, an offer that surprised ...