Giant coastal levee in response to quake-tsunami in Japan

Giant coastal levee in response to quake-tsunami in Japan

Photo taken Nov. 8, 2015, in the northeastern Japan town of Hirono shows a man fishing at a coastal levee under construction. The wall is part of a 400-kilometer-long levee system that Japan is building along its northeastern coast, the area affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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