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Naturalist Nicol speaks to children in open-air class

Naturalist Nicol speaks to children in open-air class

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Author and naturalist C.W. Nicol (L) speaks to students from Nobiru and Miyato elementary schools in an open-air class, with a tree house overlooking them, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 10, 204.

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Children visit tree house in open-air class

Children visit tree house in open-air class

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Students from Nobiru and Miyato elementary schools visit a tree house during an open-air class in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 10, 2014.

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Naturalist Nicol encourages children to enjoy outdoors

Naturalist Nicol encourages children to enjoy outdoors

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Author and naturalist C.W. Nicol (L) speaks to students from Nobiru and Miyato elementary schools after an open-air class in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 10, 2014. The elementary schools were damaged by the 2011 tsunami and plan to relocate to higher ground.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos show Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 14, 2011 (L), three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 3, 2014 (R).

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Family of girl killed by tsunami wins damages suit

Family of girl killed by tsunami wins damages suit

Photo taken in February 2016 shows Nobiru elementary school in the March 2011 disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Higashimatsushima. The Sendai District Court ruled on March 24 that the municipal government must pay compensation to the family of a 9-year-old girl who was killed by a tsunami on her way home from the school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit school buildings in Miyagi Pref. to be leased

Tsunami-hit school buildings in Miyagi Pref. to be leased

The closed Hamaichi Elementary School in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, that was damaged by the 2011 tsunami and shut down, is pictured on Nov. 10, 2015. The municipal government has decided to lease the school buildings of Hamaichi and Nobiru elementary schools to companies and nonprofit organizations for 10 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Land being developed around JR East's new Nobiru Station

Land being developed around JR East's new Nobiru Station

Land is seen being developed around JR Senseki Line's new Nobiru Station (L) in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 30, 2015. The station has been relocated to the higher ground after it was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man stands on platform of JR Senseki Line's former station

Man stands on platform of JR Senseki Line's former station

Masanobu Sakamoto, a resident of Higashimatsuhima, Miyagi Prefecture, stands on the platform of the former Nobiru Station of the quake-hit JR Senseki Line linking Sendai and Ishinomaki on May 30, 2015. It now takes 30 minutes for Sakamoto to walk to the new Nobiru Station built on higher ground from his house. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit local train line resumes full operation in north Japan

Tsunami-hit local train line resumes full operation in north Japan

Local residents celebrate with flags the resumption of full train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s tsunami-hit Senseki Line near Nobiru Station in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 30, 2015. The train features characters by the late manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori, who hailed from a nearby town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit local train line resumes full operation in north Japan

Tsunami-hit local train line resumes full operation in north Japan

Participants in a ceremony celebrating the resumption of full train services on East Japan Railway Co.'s tsunami-hit Senseki Line send off a train at Nobiru Station in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 30, 2015. (Pool photo by Kahoku Shimpo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsushima

Matsushima

This is Koiwamine (Small Rock Peak), also called Furosan, located at Nobiru Beach in Naruse-cho, next to Matsushima. The entire island is now land-locked, due to sand drifts and land slides, and these rocks stand in a pine forest.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number87‐25‐0]

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Tokyo Olympic torch relay

People see off a train carrying a Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant with the Olympic flame in a lantern on June 20, 2021, at Nobiru Station in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Higashimatsushima, northeastern Japan.

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

U.S. soldiers engage in recovery work in Miyagi

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers stationed in Japan are engaged in recovery work at Nobiru Station on the JR Senseki Line in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 21, 2011. Around 40 U.S. soldiers from Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture and 16 members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces began removing rubble at the station. The U.S. forces and the SDF will also work on the recovery of neighboring Rikuzenono Station. Both stations were damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Naturalist Nicol encourages children to enjoy outdoors

Naturalist Nicol encourages children to enjoy outdoors

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Author and naturalist C.W. Nicol (L) speaks to students from Nobiru and Miyato elementary schools after an open-air class in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 10, 2014. The elementary schools were damaged by the 2011 tsunami and plan to relocate to higher ground. (Kyodo)

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Naturalist Nicol speaks to children in open-air class

Naturalist Nicol speaks to children in open-air class

HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Japan - Author and naturalist C.W. Nicol (L) speaks to students from Nobiru and Miyato elementary schools in an open-air class, with a tree house overlooking them, in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 10, 204. (Kyodo)

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Remains of 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster

Remains of 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster

Photo taken on Sept. 1, 2018, shows a bent piece of rail track at JR Sendai line's now-defunct Nobiru station in Miyagi Prefecture. The station was converted into a museum about the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster that hit northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court finds city negligent over schoolgirl's tsunami death

Court finds city negligent over schoolgirl's tsunami death

Photo taken in April 2011 shows the gymnasium of city-run Nobiru Elementary School in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, just weeks after a devastating earthquake-tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan. The Sendai High Court on April 27, 2017 upheld a lower court ruling that ordered the city to pay 26.5 million yen ($238,000) in damages to the family of a schoolgirl killed by tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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