Friction surrounding seawalls is a major feature of the reconstruction process from this disaster. The view of the inner harbour at Kesennuma, which is protected by Oshima, a natural seawall, is ...

Shattered desks and chairs, a crumpled car with its wheels in the air, bent concrete girders. This is the scene in a third-floor classroom of the Kesennuma Kōyō High School. The old school buildings ...

Kesennuma, a city of about 60,000 in coastal Miyagi Prefecture, is just one of many communities in the Tōhoku region that spent most of the last decade rebuilding from the March 2011 tsunami. But it ...

SENDAI - East Japan Railway Co. unveiled to the media on Thursday a highly autonomous Level 4 self-driving bus set to begin runs on a special road built on a section of the quake-damaged Kesennuma ...

A self-driving Kesennuma Line BRT bus approaches Rikuzen-Yokoyama Station in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, May 28, 2026. A sign on the front of the vehicle shows it is operating on its own. (Mainichi/Yuki ...