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High school students want to hand down 2011 disaster experience Around 90 percent of high school students at six schools in northeastern Japan said they wanted their experiences from the March 11, 2011, quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster to be handed down to future generations in the hope lessons can be learned, a Kyodo News survey found Tuesday. In the survey that was distributed to 210 students, 89 percent, or 187 students, said they would generally like to hand down their memories to those who did not experience the disaster. Reasons cited included to "prevent a similar disaster," to "not...

Construction continues in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. The infrastructure projects include river embankments, bridges and roads. (Shigetaka Kodama using a drone) ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--This coastal city has been transformed, courtesy of a massive injection in government reconstruction spending following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that reduced it to ruins. But the 1.9 trillion yen ($17.9 billion) pumped in to rebuild the northeastern city facing the Pacific did little to reverse the course of decades of social change that has afflicted numerous rural communities around...

Thousands of visitors have made trips to the phone, including people who have lost relatives to sickness and suicide

Thousands of visitors from across Japan have made trips to the phone, including people who have lost relatives to sickness and suicide.

In a garden on a hill, under the wide boughs of a cherry tree, a white phone booth glistens in the early spring light.