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Life jacket with GPS receiver

Minamisanriku Mayor Jin Sato poses for a photo wearing a life jacket with a GPS receiver inside, developed by Tokyo-based disaster relief firm Guardian 72, during a press event on June 20, 2024, in the Miyagi Prefecture town that was devastated by the March 2011 quake-tsunami in northeastern Japan.

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Australian PM in tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (2nd from L) visits the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 23, 2011, accompanied by Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R). Minamisanirku Mayor Jin Sato (L) briefed her on how he survived the massive tsunami that devastated his town on March 11. (Pool photo)

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Australian PM in tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (2nd from L) visits the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 23, 2011, accompanied by Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R). Minamisanirku Mayor Jin Sato (L) briefed her on how he survived the massive tsunami that devastated his town on March 11. (Pool photo)

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Figure skating: Asian Open Trophy

(From L) Silver medalist Shun Sato of Japan, gold medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan and bronze medalist Jin Boyang of China pose for photos after the men's free skate of the Asian Open Trophy figure skating competition at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing on Oct. 15, 2021, a test event for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

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New fish market opens in tsunami-hit northeastern Japan town

Jin Sato (4th from L), mayor of the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku, participates in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 1, 2016, to mark the opening of a newly constructed fish market. The new facility, built in hope of developing the local fishing industry, was constructed after the previous market was destroyed by the March 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prefecture given ownership of ruins symbolic of 2011 tsunami

Jin Sato (L), the mayor of Minamisanriku town in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi, and a prefectural official participate in a ceremony on Dec. 22, 2015, in front of the steel frame of the town's disaster prevention office building, devastated by the 2011 tsunami. The town, which previously decided to dismantle the frame, transferred ownership of it to the prefecture until March 10, 2031, 20 years after the disaster, during which time the town will study whether to preserve or disassemble the frame. People who lost loved ones there have sought the frame's destruction while others have argued for its preservation as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 mayors from quake-hit Miyagi Pref. speak to reporters in Tokyo

The mayors of three municipalities in Miyagi Prefecture speak to reporters following a meeting held at the land ministry in Tokyo on July 24, 2015, to discuss reconstruction from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. They are (from L) Takahisa Fuse of Tome city, Shigeru Sugawara of Kesennuma city and Jin Sato of Minamisanriku town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit Minamisanriku building to be owned by prefecture

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (R) receives a document from Jin Sato, mayor of Minamisanriku Town in the prefecture, in Sendai on July 7, 2015. The town agreed to transfer the ownership of the tsunami-ravaged disaster prevention office building to the prefecture until March 2031. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Miyagi gov. explains plan on anti-disaster bldg. frame to families

Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) speaks in front of some 40 bereaved family members of those died in or went missing from Minamisanriku town's disaster prevention office building during the 2011 tsunami in the town on April 9, 2015, about a plan to transfer the ownership of the building from the town to the prefecture until March 2031 and postpone the decision on whether to preserve it or tear it down. Town Mayor Jin Sato sits on his right. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gathering to thank volunteers for help in north Japan town

A gathering to thank volunteers for their help for the 2011 tsunami-damaged town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is held on March 15, 2015, with Mayor Jin Sato shown on the screen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Minamisanriku mayor hopes to hear people's views on ruined bldg.

Mayor Jin Sato of Minamisanriku Town in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, says during an interview in the town on March 3, 2015, that he wants to hear the opinions of local residents on whether to keep the 2011 tsunami-engulfed steel frame of the public disaster prevention office building as a memorial to convey the importance of disaster prevention. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Building opens to assist post-disaster recovery of northeast Japan

Mayor Jin Sato (2nd from R) of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, and other people show off foodstuffs from the town and other places in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku at a restaurant in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2015. The Watasu Cafe restaurant is housed in a building formally opened by Mitsui Fudosan Co. on March 3 to contribute to the reconstruction of Tohoku devastated by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial couple visit disaster-hit Miyagi Pref.

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Emperor Akihito (3rd from L) and Empress Michiko (2nd from L) hear about the situation in the earthquake- and tsunami-hit town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, from Jin Sato (R), town mayor, on April 27, 2011, during their first trip to the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan since the March 11 disaster. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Australian PM in tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (2nd from L) visits the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 23, 2011, accompanied by Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R). Minamisanirku Mayor Jin Sato (L) briefed her on how he survived the massive tsunami that devastated his town on March 11. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Australian PM in tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (2nd from L) visits the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 23, 2011, accompanied by Japan's Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto (R). Minamisanirku Mayor Jin Sato (L) briefed her on how he survived the massive tsunami that devastated his town on March 11. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)