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John Roos, then U.S. Ambassador to Japan, shakes hands with children at Kawamata Minami Elementary School in Kawamata, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2012. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos will never forget spearheading a highly stressful emergency response as the United States lent a helping hand following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.  But the thing that stands out most in his mind even after the passing of 10 years is the “incredible strength and resilience” of the people in the Tohoku region, he said. Roos, ...

OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture--A decade ago, a massive tsunami crashed into the Fukushima No. 1 nuclea

Construction work continues in the Arahama area of Sendai. (Ryo Kato) The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami not only sped the population decline in many municipalities in the northwestern prefectures of Miyagi and Iwate, it sparked population growth in Sendai, a core city in the Tohoku region. The tsunami, on top of leading to scores of fatalities along the Pacific coast, also forced many survivors to move elsewhere in search of homes and work. “Municipalities where population decreases are accelerating need to create jobs that will attract workers to their area, and the central gover...

Eiki Okuyama, center, receives the remains of his mother, Natsuko, at the Ishinomaki Police Station in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10. (Shinjiro Omiya) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The remains of a woman who went missing in the 2011 tsunami were returned to her son on March 10, just one day before the 10th anniversary of the disaster.  Remains identified as Natsuko Okuyama were discovered in February in the grounds of a company near her home in Higashi-Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture. Her son Eiki received a coffin containing her body at Miyagi Prefecture's Ishinomaki Police Stat...

Seiichi Koshita kneels in prayer and offers flowers at the foot of his younger brother’s grave in