Japan’s Post-Disaster Challenge: Remembering and Rebuilding, Part 1

In Japan, the enormity of what must be rebuilt is apparent the moment you reach the Tohoku coast. Where family homes and productive farms once stood are now vast fields of overgrown weeds and ragged rice. Here and there a crumpled car or catapulted boat still lie in situ.

Mangled cars in the Arahama District of Sendai City still lie where they were deposited by the Japan tsunami on March 11. The now overgrown fields were thriving farms before the disaster. Cindy Drukier/The Epoch Times

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MIYAGI, Japan—Getting off the bullet train in Sendai, there are no obvious scars from the disaster eight months ago. Despite being the closest city to the epicenter of the monster magnitude-9.0 quake—Japan’s most powerful in recorded history—downtown suffered only modest damage and recovered quickly.