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Japanese crown prince in Wakayama

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko chat with elementary school and junior high school students during a visit to a tsunami prevention forest in Hirogawa in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on May 31, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japanese crown prince in Wakayama

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (L) and Crown Princess Kiko walk in a tsunami prevention forest in Hirogawa in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on May 31, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japanese crown prince in Wakayama

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (C, L) and Crown Princess Kiko arrive at a facility housing a tsunami education center in Hirogawa in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on May 31, 2024.

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Japanese crown prince in Wakayama

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrive at a facility housing a tsunami education center in Hirogawa in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on May 31, 2024.

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Japanese crown prince in Wakayama

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (far L) and Crown Princess Kiko arrive at a facility housing a tsunami education center in Hirogawa in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on May 31, 2024.

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Japanese crown prince in Wakayama

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (C) and Crown Princess Kiko arrive at a facility housing a tsunami education center in Hirogawa in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on May 31, 2024.

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Goryo Hamaguchi

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Goryo Hamaguchi (1820-1885), a man who saved villagers' lives by setting fire on rice fields to direct them to high ground when tsunami was going to hit a village located in today's Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture in 1854. (Kyodo)

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Goryo Hamaguchi

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Goryo Hamaguchi (1820-1885), a man who saved villagers' lives by setting fire on rice fields to direct them to high ground when tsunami was going to hit a village located in today's Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture in 1854. (Kyodo)

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Festival to remember Goryo Hamaguchi

KAINAN, Japan - Participants in the Inamura-no-himatsuri (festival) light rice straws to commemorate Goryo Hamaguchi who saved villagers' lives by setting fire on rice fields to direct them to high ground when tsunami was going to hit a village located in today's Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture in 1854. The photo was taken on Oct. 16, 2005. (Kyodo)

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Emperor, empress visit Tsunami Educational Center in western Japan

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko look at a tsunami simulator at the Tsunami Educational Center in the town of Hirogawa, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 26, 2015. (Pool photo by Mainichi Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crown prince visits Tsunami Educational Center in Wakayama Pref.

Crown Prince Naruhito (2nd from L) observes simulated tsunami waves at the Tsunami Educational Center in the Wakayama prefectural town of Hirogawa in western Japan on July 27, 2015. (Pool photo by Kii Minpo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster drill for Nankai Trough mega-quake

Elementary school students in the western Japan town of Hirogawa join a disaster drill for a Nankai Trough mega-quake on Nov. 5, 2016, the U.N.-designated World Tsunami Awareness Day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo