Tsunami-damaged town office to be demolished in Japan

Tsunami-damaged town office to be demolished in Japan

Work to demolish a former town government building where dozens of people died in the March 2011 tsunami, begins in Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 19, 2019, despite calls from some residents to preserve the building as a memorial. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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