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Remains of disaster-hit residential area in Sendai, Japan

SENDAI, Japan - The remains of a residential area in the Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, where about 720 homes were washed away in the March 2011 tsunami, are pictured on Feb. 23, 2014. Sendai municipal authorities are planning to preserve part of the area as a reminder of the disaster (Photo taken with fisheye lens).

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2 years after Japan quake

SENDAI, Japan - Around 3,000 candles are lit in the Arahama coastal district in Miyagi Prefecture to form a message in English expressing gratitude for assistance from overseas following the massive 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, on the second anniversary of the disaster on March 11, 2013.

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Global leaders visit Sendai disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - (From R, front) International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and Japanese Finance Minister Koriki Jojima stand on the rooftop of an elementary school that survived destruction in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Arahama coastal district of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2012, during their visit to sites in disaster-hit areas.

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11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A couple pray on a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2022, the 11th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast.

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11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People pray on a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2022, the 11th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast.

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11th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Flowers are placed on a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2022, the 11th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated the country's northeast.

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Skatepark in tsunami-hit area

Skateboarders keep going after sunset on Jan. 10, 2015, at the Carpe Diem Park in Sendai's Arahama district in northeastern Japan. The park, whose name means "seize the day" in Latin, was created by Shinji Kida, 34, on the site of his house after the area was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Skatepark in tsunami-hit area

A skateboarder falls on Jan. 3, 2015, at the Carpe Diem Park in Sendai's Arahama district in northeastern Japan. The park, whose name means "seize the day" in Latin, was created by Shinji Kida, 34, on the site of his former house after the area was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Skatepark in tsunami-hit area

Company worker Yu Nakajima, 31, skateboards on Jan. 18, 2015, at the R BEACH PARK in Sendai's Arahama district in northeastern Japan. The skatepark was created by Nakajima on the site of his former house after the area was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Nakajima says he has always wanted to manage such a park. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Skatepark in tsunami-hit area

Skateboarders gather on Jan. 24, 2015, at the Carpe Diem Park in Sendai's Arahama district in northeastern Japan. The park, whose name means "seize the day" in Latin, was created by Shinji Kida, 34, on the site of his former house after the area was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Skatepark in tsunami-hit area

Ruka Mizunuma, 6, poses for a photo after succeeding at a skateboarding trick for the first time on Jan. 12, 2015, at the Carpe Diem Park in Sendai's Arahama district in northeastern Japan. The park, whose name means "seize the day" in Latin, was created by Shinji Kida, 34, on the site of his former house after the area was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A flower is placed at a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan city.

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People pray a beach in the Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami disaster that devastated the northeastern Japan city.

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A woman prays in front of a memorial cenotaph built in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture for the victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of the disaster.

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A woman visits a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. She placed in the water a letter to her grandmother killed in the earthquake-tsunami disaster as she has done every year since the calamity.

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People visit a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of a massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Women watch the rising sun from a beach in the Arahama district of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of a massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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8th anniversary of 2011 northeastern Japan disaster

A women and her husband pray at a cenotaph in Sendai's Arahama district on March 11, 2019, the eighth anniversary of the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan. Part of the district was swept away by the tsunami that followed the magnitude-9 earthquake on March 11, 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo