Demarcation project launched in tsunami-hit Japan city

Demarcation project launched in tsunami-hit Japan city

SENDAI, Japan - Mayor Isoo Sasaki (R) of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, and other people attend a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 20, 2014, to launch a demarcation project in the Yuriage district of the northeastern Japan city devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

Work begins to build public housing in quake-hit Natori

Work begins to build public housing in quake-hit Natori

SENDAI, Japan - Natori Mayor Isoo Sasaki (R) joins a groundbreaking ceremony in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 23, 2014, to pray for safe work on the construction of public housing for local residents displaced by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Tourist information center opened at Sendai airport

Tourist information center opened at Sendai airport

SENDAI, Japan - Isoo Sasaki, the mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, holds guidebooks in a newly opened tourist information center at Sendai airport on May 12, 2014. The center was opened to pass on the memory of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster as well as to promote tourism in the region.

Abbas in Japan

Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd from L) is welcomed by Isoo Sasaki (R), mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, upon arriving at Sendai airport in the prefecture on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.

U.S. Vice Pres. Biden visits quake-hit Miyagi Pref.

U.S. Vice Pres. Biden visits quake-hit Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (R) receives flowers from Isoo Sasaki, the mayor of Natori in Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 23, 2011, to lay in memory of the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Biden became the highest-ranking U.S. official to travel to the disaster-hit northeast of Japan. (Pool Photo)(Kyodo)

Abbas in Japan

Abbas in Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (2nd from L) is welcomed by Isoo Sasaki (R), mayor of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, upon arriving at Sendai airport in the prefecture on April 12, 2012. After visiting the northeastern Japanese prefecture hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami, Abbas headed to Tokyo later in the day for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. (Kyodo)

Demarcation project launched in tsunami-hit Japan city

Demarcation project launched in tsunami-hit Japan city

SENDAI, Japan - Mayor Isoo Sasaki (R) of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, and other people attend a groundbreaking ceremony on Oct. 20, 2014, to launch a demarcation project in the Yuriage district of the northeastern Japan city devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. (Kyodo)