Stone monument describing tsunami terror unveiled

Stone monument describing tsunami terror unveiled

MORIOKA, Japan - A stone monument with an engraving of a poem describing the terror of a tsunami is unveiled in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2014. Poet Yoshi Tabata, standing by the monument, experienced the two devastating tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region in 1933 and 2011. (Kyodo)

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