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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

Passengers stand in front of Sanriku Railway's Miyako Station in Miyako in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 30, 2025, after railway services were suspended following a tsunami warning. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the warning for the country's Pacific coast in the wake of a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Olympic torch in Japan

MIYAKO, Japan, March 22 Kyodo - Photo taken in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on March 22, 2020, shows the flame for the Tokyo Olympics being carried by Sanriku Railway's Rias Line. The flame is touring through northeastern Japan towns hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, ahead of the start of the torch relay from Fukushima Prefecture on March 26.

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Sushi served on disaster-hit Sanriku Railway

MORIOKA, Japan - Officials of Iwate Prefecture's coastal promotion bureau serve sushi made with local seafood on the "Sushi train" of Sanriku Railway Co.'s South Rias Line running through Kamaishi in the northeastern Japan prefecture on Aug. 2, 2014.

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Sushi served on disaster-hit Sanriku Railway

MORIOKA, Japan - A family enjoys sushi with local scallops on the "Sushi train" of Sanriku Railway Co.'s South Rias Line running through Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 2, 2014.

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Train stops at station repaired after tsunami damage

MORIOKA, Japan - A train of Sanriku Railway Co.'s North Rias Line stops at Shimanokoshi Station in Tanohata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 27, 2014, as it reopens after virtual completion of repair work from devastation inflicted by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011.

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Tsunami-hit railway station resumes operation

MORIOKA, Japan - Shimanokoshi Station of Sanriku Railway Co.'s North Rias Line in Tanohata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, resumes operation on July 27, 2014, after virtual completion of repair work from devastation inflicted by the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011,.

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Emperor, empress visit Cape Iwaisaki

KESENNUMA, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) and Empress Michiko (R) visit Cape Iwaisaki in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 23, 2014. The cape is located in Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National Park, which the government created in 2013 by expanding the Rikuchu Kaigan National Park along the Sanriku Coast following the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Jiji Press)

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3 plaques of AKB48 group missing at Iwate Pref. station

MORIOKA, Japan - Plaques made of scallop shells hanging in a waiting room of Koishihama Station on the Sanriku Railway Co.'s Minami Rias Line in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, are seen in this photo taken on May 29, 2014. Three plaques on which members of popular Japanese all-girl pop group AKB48, including Mayu Watanabe, wrote some messages went missing recently.

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Sanriku Railway

KAMAISHI, Japan - A train on Sanriku Railway Co.'s South Rias line takes a test run in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture on March 28, 2014 before resuming full service on April 5. Parts of the train line were closed after being damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Train with interior resembling old folk house

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. shows on March 25, 2014, its new train called "Sanriku Hamakaze," which has an interior designed to resemble an old folk house, in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. The train will be used starting April 6 when all of the railway's lines will be back in operation after services were partially suspended following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Interior of train resembling old folk house

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. shows on March 25, 2014, the interior of its new train called "Sanriku Hamakaze," which is designed to resemble an old folk house, in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. The train will enter service on April 6 when all of the railway's lines will be back in operation after services were partially suspended following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Glass-plate negatives recording 1896 Sanriku quake

TOKYO, Japan - Shozo Fujiwara, an official of the Morioka Local Meteorological Observatory, holds some of the glass-plate negatives recording damage inflicted by the 1896 earthquake and tsunami that hit the Sanriku region on the Pacific coast in northeastern Japan, at the observatory in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, on July 1, 2013.

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1,000 banners project to promote Sanriku oysters

SENDAI, Japan - A banner is set up in front of a restaurant in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 27, 2014, to promote oysters from the Sanriku region in northeastern Japan. Oyster farmers in Miyagi Prefecture are distributing banners to restaurants and shops for free as part of "Sanriku oyster 1,000 banners project" to promote Sanriku oysters, since shipments of the local specialty have yet to recover to levels prior to the 2011 disaster.

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Tsunami-damaged railways

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. President Masahiko Mochizuki (C) holds a press conference in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 27, 2014. The railway operator will fully resume services on its two railway lines in Iwate Prefecture in April 2014, three years after the devastating March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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2014 calendar

MORIOKA, Japan - Hitoshi Oita, a businessman in Morioka, Japan, shows the 2014 Iwate Sanriku Calendar that he planned. It features people in areas hit by the March 2011 quake and tsunami in Iwate Prefecture. Photo was taken Nov. 15, 2013.

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Tsunami survivor tells life-saving story with picture cards

MORIOKA, Japan - Using handmade picture cards, Yoshi Tabata (R) tells a story titled "Tsunami" based on her own experience of the 1933 powerful tsunami that hit the Sanriku region in northeastern Japan, on Nov. 1, 2013 in the inland village of Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture.

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Model for "Amachan" grandma

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 8, 2013 shows Kunie Kudo holding a sea urchin boxed lunch at the Sanriku Rias-Tei restaurant on the premises of Sanriku Railway Kuji Station in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. Kudo is said to be one of the models for Natsu Amano, the charismatic grandmother of the main character Aki Amano in the NHK drama titled "Amachan."

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Japan starts whaling in coastal waters

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo taken April 18, 2013, shows part of a fleet of four whaling ships that left Ayukawa port in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, to start their seasonal hunting of minke whales for research purposes in coastal waters in northeastern Japan. The whalers plan to catch up to 60 minke whales in waters off the Sanriku region through early June, fishery industry officials said.

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Japan starts whaling in coastal waters

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo taken April 18, 2013, shows part of a fleet of four whaling ships that left Ayukawa port in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, to start their seasonal hunting of minke whales for research purposes in coastal waters in northeastern Japan. The whalers plan to catch up to 60 minke whales in waters off the Sanriku region through early June, fishery industry officials said.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents celebrate as a special train arrives at Yoshihama Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - A special train departs Sakari Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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Tsunami-hit railway partially reopens

OFUNATO, Japan - Residents see a special train off from Sakari Station in Iwate Prefecture on the Minami Riasu Line on April 3, 2013, as the Sanriku Railway Co. line crippled by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster partially reopened for service. New carriages were bought with the help of the Kuwaiti government.

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Walking for survey of post-disaster park reconstruction

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Shunsuke Goto, a Waseda University student, looks at the mouth of the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013, during a field survey commissioned by the Environment Ministry to choose a 700-kilometer natural path called "Tohoku Kaigan Trail." The selection of the coastal path from Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, is a core project for a Sanriku Fukko (Reconstruction) National Park to be created by rebuilding natural parks damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.

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St. Valentine's Day chocolates

MIYAKO, Japan - A women hands chocolate to passengers at Sanriku Railway Co.'s Miyako Station in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 14, 2012. Confectionery shop ''Amla-an'' in Hiroshima Prefecture hosted the St. Valentine's Day event to hand some 300 chocolates to passengers and station employees to do some cheerleading for the local railway. Operations on about two-thirds of the railroad along the Pacific are still suspended as stations and rails were swept away by the March 2011 tsunami.

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New rails for disaster-hit railway company

NODA, Japan - Workers on Feb. 1, 2012, lay new railroad rails in the village of Noda, Iwate Prefecture, an area hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as the work began the same day in the village. Sanriku Railway Co. aims at fully resuming its services in April 2014.

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Christmas illuminations in disaster-hit Miyako

MIYAKO, Japan - A couple looks at Christmas illuminations lit up Nov. 22, 2011, in front of Sanriku Railway Co.'s Miyako Station in quake- and tsunami-hit Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan.

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Coastal research whaling ship

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Photo taken April 25, 2011, shows a whaling ship docked at Kushiro port in Hokkaido. The ship's departure from the port for coastal research whaling in waters off Kushiro under the approval of Japan's Fisheries Agency, which was scheduled April 25, was postponed due to bad weather. The whaling site was changed to waters off Hokkaido from off the Sanriku coastline in northeastern Japan after the catastrophic March 11 earthquake and tsunami wrecked whaling ships and related facilities in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, home to one of Japan's key coastal whaling bases.

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Monument for poet Miyazawa survives tsunami

TANOHATA, Japan - A monument engraved with a poem by well-known writer Kenji Miyazawa stands amid rubble in the village of Tanohata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2011. The monument was erected in 1997 in front of Sanriku Railway Co.'s Shimanokoshi Station, which was washed away by the March 11 tsunami.

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Teaching from ancestors save community from tsunami

MIYAKO, Japan - Photo taken on April 5, 2011, shows a stone tablet in the tsunami-hit city of Miyako's Aneyoshi district, which has an inscription warning against building houses in areas lower than where the stone is set and describing destruction caused by past tsunamis. Eleven houses in the district, home to some 30 residents, were all safe from the March 11 devastating tsunami, despite an estimated record 38.9-meter-high tsunami hitting there, as they heeded the warning left by their predecessors, who set up the stone following the 1933 Showa Sanriku earthquake and tsunami. The Aneyoshi district was thoroughly devastated and almost all its residents were killed in the 1933 tsunami and the 1896 Meiji Sanriku earthquake and tsunami.

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Tsunami survivor says 'don't look back'

MIYAKO, Japan - Yoshi Akanuma, 93, speaks to her great-grandchild at an evacuation center in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on April 7, 2011. Akanuma, who survived the 1933 Showa Sanriku Earthquake Tsunami and the March 11 tsunami in northeastern Japan, said one needs to ''not look back, but live with hope.'' She said her goal is to see her hometown recover.

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U.S. support for quake-hit Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on March 28, 2011, shows the U.S. amphibious assault ship the Essex in the Pacific off the disaster-hit Sanriku coast, northeastern Japan. The ship is engaged in carrying relief goods to areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami, in a post-disaster operation called ''Tomodachi'' (friends), in which more than 18,000 U.S. military personnel are taking part.

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U.S. support for quake-hit Japan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. military personnel transport relief goods to a helicopter from a U.S. naval vessel on March 29, 2011, in the Pacific off the Sanriku coast, northeastern Japan. More than 18,000 U.S. military personnel have been taking part in a post-disaster operation called ''Tomodachi'' (friends) to deliver relief items to disaster-hit areas.

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U.S. support for quake-hit Japan

OFF SANRIKU COAST, Japan - Photo taken on March 28, 2011, shows inside the U.S. amphibious assault ship the Essex in the Pacific off the disaster-hit Sanriku coast, northeastern Japan. The ship was used to restore electricity on Oshima Island, Miyagi Prefecture, which was hit by the March 11 catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, while also providing relief supplies to disaster stricken areas.

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U.S. support for quake-hit Japan

OFF SANRIKU COAST, Japan - U.S. Navy sailors wearing rubber gloves and rubber shoe covers for protection against radiation work aboard the U.S. amphibious assault ship the Essex in the Pacific off the disaster-hit Sanriku coast, northeastern Japan, on March 29, 2011. The ship was used to restore electricity on Oshima Island in Miyagi Prefecture which was hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, while also providing relief supplies to disaster stricken areas.

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U.S. support for quake-hit Japan

OFF SANRIKU COAST, Japan - A U.S. military member (R) receives radiation screened on the U.S. amphibious assault ship the Essex in the Pacific off the disaster-hit Sanriku coast, northeastern Japan, upon arrival on March 28, 2011. The ship has been engaged in Operation Tomodachi, providing relief after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.S. support for quake-hit Japan

OFF SANRIKU COAST, Japan - U.S. Navy sailors pack aid supplies in cardboard boxes aboard the amphibious assault ship the Essex in the Pacific off the disaster-hit Sanriku coast, northeastern Japan, on March 28, 2011. The ship has been engaged in Operation Tomodachi, providing relief after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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U.S. support over Japan disaster

ABOARD THE ESSEX, Japan - Capt. David Fluker, captain of the U.S. amphibious assault ship Essex, speaks during an interview at the bridge of the vessel in the Pacific off the Sanriku coast in northeastern Japan on March 28, 2011. Fluker vowed to continue relief efforts in response to the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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S. Korea lodges formal protest over Japan's fishing ban

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Han Seung Soo (R) summons Japanese Ambassador Terusuke Terada (L) to his ministry in Seoul on June 25. Han lodged his country's formal protest against Japan for barring its fishing boats from operating in waters off the Sanriku region of northeastern Japan.

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Expressway in Japan's disaster recovery project

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2021, from a drone shows a part of the Sanriku Coast Expressway in the Iwate Prefecture village of Noda, northeastern Japan. All parts of the 359-kilometer expressway between Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, and Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, have opened in a state-run recovery project from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Expressway in Japan's disaster recovery project

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2021, from a drone shows a part of the Sanriku Coast Expressway in the Iwate Prefecture village of Noda, northeastern Japan. All parts of the 359-kilometer expressway between Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, and Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, have opened in a state-run recovery project from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Expressway in Japan's disaster recovery project

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2021, from a drone shows a part of the Sanriku Coast Expressway in the Iwate Prefecture village of Noda, northeastern Japan. All parts of the 359-kilometer expressway between Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, and Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, have opened in a state-run recovery project from the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Trial run of the Yamada Line, JR East Japan

The JR East Yamada Line between Miyako and Kamaishi will become the Sanriku Tetsudo Rias Line on March 23, so training operations are being conducted daily using Sanriku Tetsudo cars. The large white building in the background is the Otsuchi Town Hall, March 1, 2019, near Otsuchi Station, Otsuchi Town, Kamihei-gun, Iwate Prefecture; Credit: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Trial run of the Yamada Line, JR East Japan

The JR East Yamada Line between Miyako and Kamaishi will become the Sanriku Tetsudo Rias Line from March 23, so training operations are being conducted daily using Sanriku Tetsudo trains. A Sanriku Railway train near Otsuchi Station, March 1, 2019, near Otsuchi Station, Otsuchi-cho, Kamihai-gun, Iwate Prefecture.

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Trial run of the Yamada Line, JR East Japan

The soon-to-be-opened Otsuchi Station on the Sanriku Railway Rias Line, Otsuchi Station, Otsuchi-cho, Kamihei-gun, Iwate Prefecture, March 1, 2019; Credit: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Trial run of the Yamada Line, JR East Japan

The JR East Yamada Line between Miyako and Kamaishi will become the Sanriku Tetsudo Rias Line from March 23, so training operations are being conducted daily using Sanriku Tetsudo trains. A Sanriku Railway train near Otsuchi Station, March 1, 2019, near Otsuchi Station, Otsuchi-cho, Kamihai-gun, Iwate Prefecture.

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Trial run of the Yamada Line, JR East Japan

The JR East Yamada Line between Miyako and Kamaishi will become the Sanriku Tetsudo Rias Line from March 23, so training operations are being conducted daily using Sanriku Tetsudo trains. A Sanriku Railway train near Unozome Station, March 1, 2019, near Unozome Station, Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan; Credit: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Tohoku brewery sells ascidian ale in reconstruction effort

Wataru Sato, president of Sekinoichi brewery, holds a bottle of "Sanriku no Hoya (sea squirt) Ale" using sea squirt broth, in Ichinoseki, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 25, 2015. The brewery in Iwate Prefecture developed the unique ale jointly with a fish sales company in Minamisanriku town in Miyagi Prefecture, south of Iwate, and sold it on a trial basis in 2010, but its resale plan was suspended after the northeastern Japan region was hit by the powerful earthquake and tsunami in March the following year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Huge water tank at aquarium replicates ocean off northeastern Japan

A huge water tank at the Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium replicating the sea off the Sanriku coast of northeastern Japan is shown to the press on June 23, 2015, ahead of its official opening on July 1. A total of 25,000 fish swim in the tank. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Giant water tank at aquarium replicates ocean off northeastern Japan

A giant water tank at the Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium designed to replicate the sea off the Sanriku coast in northeastern Japan is shown to the press on June 23, 2015, ahead of its official opening on July 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pilgrimage route developed in 2011 disaster-hit Sanriku area

Yukio Koma, a "shamisen" Japanese three-string musical instrument player, poses for a photo in March 2015. Koma, hailing from Iwate Prefecture, came up with the idea of creating a pilgrimage road along the 2011 disaster-hit Sanriku coast area, northeastern Japan, covering dozens of temples on a route of about 330 kilometers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo