SENDAI—An international conference on disaster preparedness will be held for the first time in three years and four months in this city that suffered damage in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

The foundations of houses destroyed by the March 11 tsunami are seen beside undamaged houses, near Sendai, northeast Japan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Though much of the debris left by the March 11 ...

SENDAI, Japan, Oct 10 (IPS) - The debris of the devastated Arahama elementary school yielded two enduring lessons for its principal, Takao Kawamura, in the months after the massive 9.0-magnitude ...

Google released satellite images revealing the devastation in Watari caused by the March 11 tsunami and earthquake. The satellite images are available on Google Earth and Google Maps. Watari 2005.

Zuigan-ji Temple in Matsushima, one of the sites damaged in the 2011 tsunami (image via wikipedia.org) Beyond a rising death toll of over 10,800, the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in northern ...

Jun Hirayama, 20 and his grandmother, Akiyo Hirayama, 70, lost their home in the Japanese city of Sendai when the tsunami swept it away on March 11, 2011. They nearly lost their lives when it overtook ...

2 Seismologist Bernd Weber of Germany's Geoscientific Research Institute GFZ in Potsdam poses for the media as he shows a graph with the magnitude of the earthquake in Japan on a monitor in Potsdam, ...

Tsunami damage is seen on the outline of an aircraft next to Sendai Airport. Greg Baker / AP Visitors pay respects at a shrine set up in the shell of the tsunami-damaged disaster-control-center ...