2011 disaster: farmland then and now

2011 disaster: farmland then and now

SENDAI, Japan - Farmland devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami still appeared unfertile a year and a half later, as shown in the photo (top) taken in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2012. Most of the same farmland now is planted with crops, as shown in the photo (bottom) taken on Sept. 1, 2014.

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