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Yoshio Satomi, right, director of the Genshiryoku Saigai Koshokan museum, speaks to visitors in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 12 in front of a display made of debris and personal possessions of the dead. The exhibit is intended to show how evacuees were forced to give up searching for missing people after the 2011 nuclear crisis unfolded. (Shoko Rikimaru) IWAKI, Fukushima Prefecture--A hot spring inn here opened a museum about the Fukushima nuclear disaster to pass down lessons from the crisis and heal rifts that may have developed. Local volunteers started the Genshiryoku Saigai Kosh...

Yosuke Futomi uses underwater drones in his searches for remains and items of people missing since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Shigetaka Kodama) WATARI, Miyagi Prefecture--Haunting memories of the death of his brother have pushed Yosuke Futomi to continue searching the seabed here to help tsunami survivors gain a sense of closure. Futomi runs a marine sports facility in the town of Watari. But since 2016, he has volunteered to dive into the ocean for clues of those who disappeared in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Around 2,500 people r...

Narumi Saijo in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in February. She is motivated by her friend’s words of praise for having a unique point of view. (Shoko Mifune) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--A high school dropout and shut-in, Narumi Saijo didn't feel comfortable leaving the confines of her home until one day when she had no choice.  On March 11, 2011, when Ishinomaki was rocked by a quake measuring an intensity of lower 6 on the Japanese scale of 7, Saijo had to grab her dog, Goma, and crawl under a “kotatsu” table. It was only after her father, who had returned home from fishing in th...

Feb. 19, 2021: Takayuki Tamura, left, and his wife, Hiromi, talk about the importance of staying safe in a natural disaster as they address students of the Iwadeyama Junior High School in Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture. An image of a memorial monument in Onagawa, also in the prefecture, can be seen in the background. (Takaharu Yagi) Editor’s note: This is the last of a four-part series retracing the lives of four families over the decade following the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, mainly through photos that depict a range of human emotions as bereaved family members and ot...

Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series retracing the lives of four families over