Foundations of houses to be preserved as disaster memorial

SENDAI, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Photo taken Sept. 21, 2017, in the northeastern Japan city of Sendai shows foundations of houses that were swept away by tsunami in the 2011 natural disaster. The municipal government has decided to preserve them as a disaster memorial. A damaged school, seen in the background, is also to be preserved in its current state.

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