Massive levee system being built along northeastern Japan coast

Massive levee system being built along northeastern Japan coast

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2015, from a drone shows a gradient-type coastal levee constructed in the northeastern Japanese city of Kesennuma following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake to protect farming land near the ocean in the event of a tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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