Japanese group succeeds in simulating 2.5-meter tsunami

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Walls of a wooden house and life-sized dolls are destroyed and washed away by a 2.5-meter simulated tsunami created in a large waterway-shaped device which the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, has devised and put to press preview on June 29.

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