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Exterior of Miyagi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Miyagi Prefectural Government Building=January 26,2026,Miyagi

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Exterior of Miyagi Prefectural Government Building

Exterior of Miyagi Prefectural Government Building=January 26,2026,Miyagi

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Miyagi Prefectural Government Sign

Miyagi Prefectural Government Sign=January 26,2026,Miyagi

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Miyagi Prefectural Government Sign

Miyagi Prefectural Government Sign=January 26,2026,Miyagi

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Miyagi Prefectural Government Sign

Miyagi Prefectural Government Sign=January 26,2026,Miyagi

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Athletics: Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden

Miyagi Prefecture anchor Haruka Kokai breaks the tape at the finish line of the Inter-Prefectural Women's Ekiden road relay in Kyoto on Jan. 14, 2024, securing the northeastern Japan prefecture's first title in 29 years and the second overall.

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Face masks at school graduation ceremonies

About half of students attend a graduation ceremony without wearing face masks at Sendai Daiichi High School in the Miyagi prefectural capital of Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 1, 2023. Students at Gifu prefectural high school in the Gifu prefectural capital of Gifu, central Japan, wear face masks at a graduation ceremony on March 1, 2023. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in February that the government will not urge students and teachers to wear face masks at school graduation ceremonies slated for March as part of its plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions.

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Face masks at school graduation ceremonies

About half of students attend a graduation ceremony without wearing face masks at Sendai Daiichi High School in the Miyagi prefectural capital of Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 1, 2023. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in February that the government will not urge students and teachers to wear face masks at school graduation ceremonies slated for March as part of its plan to ease COVID-19 guidelines on protective face masks.

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Face masks at school graduation ceremonies

About half of students attend a graduation ceremony without wearing face masks at Sendai Daiichi High School in the Miyagi prefectural capital of Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 1, 2023. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in February that the government will not urge students and teachers to wear face masks at school graduation ceremonies slated for March as part of its plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions.

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Sendai restaurant to serve oysters from tsunami-hit town

SENDAI, Japan - Takeshi Komatsu (R) hands over a package of cultured oysters from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to Yuji Tachibana, owner and chef of a French restaurant in the prefectural capital of Sendai, on Jan. 31, 2014. Kesennuma is a port city ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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People walk by frame of building damaged by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - People on Jan. 1, 2015, walk by the iron frame of public disaster prevention building in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The prefectural government is considering taking ownership of the frame until the town office's final decision on whether to preserve it as a disaster monument.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Cars pass by radiation dosimeter in Fukushima Pref.

NAMIE, Japan - Cars pass through the expressway gate in the town of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, that connects Namie with the Miyagi prefectural town of Yamamoto on the Joban Expressway on Dec. 6, 2014, as the Yamamoto-Soma and Minamisoma-Namie sections opened the same day. The radiation dosimeter board is seen near the gate.

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Horseback warrior appears in Joban Expressway ceremony

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A horseman of the traditional "Soma Nomaoi" festival adds zest to a ceremony in the Miyagi prefectural town of Yamamoto on Dec. 6, 2014, as the northeastern Japanese town was fully connected with Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture on the Joban Expressway. Parts of the expressway section between the two towns had not opened.

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Ceremony to connect 2 towns on Joban Expressway

YAMAMOTO, Japan - A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held in the Miyagi Prefectural town of Yamamoto on Dec. 6, 2014, to mark the connection of the northeastern Japanese town with Namie town in Fukushima Prefecture on the Joban Expressway. Parts of the expressway section between the two towns had not opened.

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Fukushima police comb debris in coastal areas

NAMIE, Japan - Fukushima prefectural police officers comb through debris in the town of Namie on Nov. 11, 2014, 44 months after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in search of missing victims' remains. As of Nov. 10, 2,593 people were unaccounted for in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, according to the National Police Agency.

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Hyogo policeman works for Miyagi police at his request

SENDAI, Japan - Police officer Kensaku Iwase is on permanent assignment with the Miyagi prefectural police in northeastern Japan from the Hyogo prefectural police at his request so he can fully commit to the recovery of the 2011 tsunami-hit region. The photo was taken on Aug. 15, 2014, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Miyagi police publish Booklet on 2011 quake

SENDAI, Japan - The Miyagi prefectural police publish a booklet titled "Three years after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Police Activities," depicting some of their activities such as searching for missing persons and going around temporary houses in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami.

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Hanyu receives honorary award from Miyagi gov't

SENDAI, Japan - Sochi Olympic figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu (R) poses for a photo with Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai after receiving an honorary award from the prefectural government in Sendai on April 26, 2014.

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Disaster-hit building in Minamisanriku, Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The skeletal structure of what used to be a local government building in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remains deserted on Feb. 14, 2014. Forty-three people, mostly town officials, died at the building in the March 2011 tsunami. The structure was set to be demolished initially but its preservation as a reminder of the disaster is being discussed by experts at the request of the prefectural governor.

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Sochi figure skating winner Hanyu visits hometown Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Sochi Olympics men's figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu (C) is welcomed by throngs of fans during a visit to the Miyagi prefectural government office in his hometown Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 26, 2014.

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Sochi gold medalist Hanyu greets fans in hometown Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Sochi Olympics men's figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu (C) waves to throngs of fans during a visit to the Miyagi prefectural government office in his hometown Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 26, 2014.

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Student from quake-hit region

GENEVA, Switzerland - Kosuke Kagaya (R), a student at the Miyagi prefectural Sendai Daisan senior high school, is pictured on a snowboarding outing in the Swiss mountain resort village of Verbier on Dec. 24, 2013. Kagaya is spending time in Switzerland until the end of the year on a project started by a Japanese woman living in the country to invite children and students from Japan's Tohoku region hit by the March 2011 disaster to a school in Switzerland.

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Envoy Kennedy in Tohoku

SENDAI, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) and Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai shake hands at the Miyagi prefectural office in Sendai on Nov. 25, 2013. It is Kennedy's first visit to the Tohoku area in northeastern Japan, which was hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, since assuming office earlier in the month. (Pool photo)

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Women in Kesennuma knit to build world-class brand

SENDAI, Japan - Tamako Mitarai (C), president of Kesennuma Knitting Co., watches local women practice knitting on Sept. 4, 2013 in the coastal Miyagi prefectural city of Kesennuma, which was badly hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Miyagi police officer brings cheer to hometown with pistol gold

NATORI, Japan - Photo taken June 12, 2013 at Miyagi Prefectural Police School in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, shows Teruyoshi Akiyama, an assistant inspector in the Miyagi Prefectural Riot Police who won the Gold medal in the Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Munich, Germany in May.

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Hawaiian Airlines launches Sendai-Honolulu flight

NATORI, Japan - A passenger receives a lei from a Hawaiian Airlines employee at Sendai airport in northeastern Japan on June 26, 2013, the day the U.S. carrier launched regular service between Honolulu and the Miyagi Prefectural capital of Sendai.

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Hawaiian Airlines launches Sendai-Honolulu flight

NATORI, Japan - Dancers perform hula at Sendai airport in northeastern Japan on June 26, 2013, to commemorate the launch by Hawaiian Airlines the same day of regular service between Honolulu and the Miyagi Prefectural capital of Sendai.

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Hawaiian Airlines launches Sendai-Honolulu flight

NATORI, Japan - A Hawaiian Airlines airplane bound for Honolulu shown shortly before departing from Sendai airport in northeastern Japan on June 26, 2013. The U.S. carrier launched regular service between Honolulu and the Miyagi Prefectural capital of Sendai that day.

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Lady Gaga's teacup donated to disaster-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken at Miyagi prefectural government offices on Feb. 20, 2013 shows a teacup that pop icon Lady Gaga used. The teacup, which was sold for 6 million yen at a charity auction in May 2012 to support the recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is given to Miyagi Prefecture, a northeastern Japan area hit hard by the disaster, on Feb. 20, 2013. Lady Gaga sipped from the teacup at a news conference in Tokyo in June, 2011. It is smeared with her lipstick and the phrase "We pray for Japan" is written in Japanese across the front.

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Lady Gaga's teacup donated to disaster-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai (L) receives a teacup that pop icon Lady Gaga used, at the prefectural government offices on Feb. 20, 2013. The teacup, which was sold for 6 million yen at a charity auction in May 2012 to support the recovery from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, is presented to Miyagi Prefecture, a northeastern Japan area hit hard by the disaster, on Feb. 20, 2013. Lady Gaga sipped from the teacup at a news conference in Tokyo in June, 2011. It is smeared with her lipstick and the phrase "We pray for Japan" is written in Japanese across the front.

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Emperor, empress travel to disaster-hit Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (R) attend on May 12, 2012, a lecture at the Miyagi prefectural government office in Sendai by Tohoku University professor Fumihiko Imamura (L) about quake countermeasures. The imperial couple traveled to Sendai the same day for a two-day visit, during which they will meet with people still living in temporary housing 14 months after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the area. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo eateries offer chance to support recovery efforts

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2012, shows the signboard of a nonprofit Japanese-style pub named Reconstruction Support Tavern, which opened in Tokyo's Ginza district in January the same year to aid recovery efforts in areas hit by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. The tavern, open until late September 2012, aims to donate its monthly profits of over 1 million yen to the prefectural governments of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

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Chocolates supporting disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A woman shows chocolates (L) made with six different types of Japanese sake brewed in Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and chocolates (R) made with honey produced in Sendai, the prefectural capital, at the Fujisaki department store in Sendai on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Police funeral in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers carry cremated remains of fellow officers after a funeral in Sendai on Sept. 20, 2011. The police funeral for 14 Miyagi prefectural police officers who died or went missing in the line of duty in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster was held in the city on the same day.

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Drifted fishing gears from Miyagi Pref.

MITO, Japan - An official of the Oarai town office in Ibaraki Prefecture organizes buoys for aquafarming on Sept. 8, 2011, which were retrieved from waters off Oarai in July 2011, before shipping them back the following day to the Miyagi prefectural fishery cooperative, which owns the gear. About 120 buoys had drifted there from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, some 300 kilometers away, after the March 11 tsunami.

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Self-Defense Forces wrap up Miyagi operation

SENDAI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces wrap up relief operations in Miyagi Prefecture that began after the March quake and tsunami in a ceremony at the prefectural government head office in Sendai on Aug. 1, 2011. The SDF earlier pulled out of Iwate Prefecture but is continuing work in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Self-Defense Forces wrap up Miyagi operation

SENDAI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces wrap up relief operations in Miyagi Prefecture that began after the March quake and tsunami in a ceremony at the prefectural government head office in Sendai on Aug. 1, 2011. The SDF earlier pulled out of Iwate Prefecture but is continuing work in Fukushima Prefecture.

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Ground force wraps up relief operations in Iwate

MORIOKA, Japan - A vehicle of the Ground Self-Defense Force leaves the Iwate prefectural head office in Morioka on July 26, 2011, as the GSDF wrapped up relief operations in Iwate Prefecture that day after the March quake and tsunami. The GSDF is still conducting operations in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.

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Ground force wraps up relief operations in Iwate

MORIOKA, Japan - A ceremony is held at the Iwate prefectural head office in Morioka on July 26, 2011, to thank the Ground Self-Defense Force as it wrapped up relief operations in Iwate Prefecture that day after the March quake and tsunami. The GSDF is still conducting operations in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.

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Miyagi's largest aftershock

SENDAI, Japan - A man holds his head in his hands shortly after northeastern Japan was struck by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the strongest aftershock since the March 11, 2011 magnitude 9.0 quake, at a lobby of the Miyagi prefectural government office building in Sendai in the early hours of April 8, 2011.

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3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Okayama prefectural police search for people missing since the March 11, 2011, tsunami in northeastern Japan, in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, the first day of a three-day intensive search the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the devastating disaster. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part.

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3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces and the Okayama prefectural police carry the body of a person found during a search in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011, the first day of a three-day intensive search the SDF and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the March 11 devastating tsunami. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part.

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3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Okayama prefectural police search for people missing since the March 11, 2011, tsunami in northeastern Japan, in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, the first day of a three-day intensive search the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the devastating disaster. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part.

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3-day intensive search begins

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces and the Okayama prefectural police clasp their hands in prayer for the body of a person found during a search in an inundated area in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 1, 2011, the first day of a three-day intensive search the SDF and the U.S. military are conducting for those still missing three weeks after the March 11 devastating tsunami. Members of the Japanese police, the Japan Coast Guard and fire departments are also taking part.

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Easy-to-build temp housing

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A sample easy-to-build temporary housing unit is brought to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. Inside the unit is a kitchen and bunk bed. Yamaguchi prefectural assemblyman Seiji Okamura, who led a project to develop such housing, said four adults would take only about an hour to set up a unit. Many people lost their homes in the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Easy-to-build temp housing

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A sample easy-to-build temporary housing unit is brought to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. Yamaguchi prefectural assemblyman Seiji Okamura, who led a project to develop such housing, said four adults would take only about an hour to set up a unit. Many people lost their homes in the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Quake in northeastern Japan

SENDAI, Japan - Employees of the Miyagi prefectural government office in Sendai are busy collecting information on any injuries or damages after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the northeastern Japanese prefecture on March 9, 2011.