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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Shizugawa area of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2014 (bottom).

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2 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show Shizugawa High School in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (L), shortly after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about two and a half years later on Sept. 1, 2013 (R). People still live in temporary housing units (R) on the school ground, where survivors wrote "SOS." (L).

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Chilean president visits Minamisanriku

SENDAI, Japan - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel stand near the head from a replica of Easter Island's Moai statue, outside Shizugawa High School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 30, 2012. The replica of the famous statue on the island, a Chilean territory, was donated to the town in 1991 by Chile as a symbol of the town's recovery from damage caused by a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in Chile in 1960. The replica was damaged by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Minamisanriku soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same town on March 7, 2012 (bottom). Shizugawa High School is shown in the front.

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Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows the inside of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.

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Memorial service for disaster victims in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Bird images are drawn with lined-up candles at Shizugawa Junior High School in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 11, 2011, to commemorate the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami two months after the disaster.

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Carnations in tsunami-hit areas

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Red carnations are placed in front of the entrance of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 7, 2011, ahead of Mother's Day the next day. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami.

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10.

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Male greenling at Shizugawa bay

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A male greenling whose scales have taken on golden coloration protects eggs beneath it at a depth of about 13 meters in Shizugawa Bay in the Pacific Ocean off Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2010.

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Male greenling at Shizugawa bay

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A male greenling whose scales have taken on a golden color chases another fish as it protects eggs beneath it at a depth of about 13 meters in Shizugawa Bay in the Pacific Ocean off Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 1, 2010.

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Male greenling at Shizugawa bay

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A male greenling whose scales have turned from brown to gold protects eggs laid on rocks and seaweed beneath it at a depth of about 5 meters in Shizugawa Bay in the Pacific Ocean off Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2010.

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Shizugawa Bay in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Oct. 16, 2018, shows Shizugawa Bay in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan has designated the bay, along with Kasai Marine Park in Tokyo, as important international wetlands for their conservation value based on the Ramsar treaty, the only international conservation body focused on wetlands said Oct. 18. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2015, shows physician Masaji Saito looking at a clock that used to hang on a wall of the tsunami-hit Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, and which is now exhibited at its newly completed replacement, Minamisanriku Hospital. The clock stopped at 3:27 p.m., the time the tsunami struck and engulfed the five-story hospital in the northeastern Japanese town, reaching up to the ceiling of the fourth floor and killing 74 patients and staff members there. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

Guests cut the ribbon at an inauguration ceremony on Nov. 25, 2015, for the newly completed Minamisanriku Hospital, a replacement for the Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, that was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters. Of the 5.6 billion yen construction cost, 2.2 billion yen was financed by donations from Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit hospital to make new start in replaced building

The interior of the newly completed Minamisanriku Hospital, a replacement for the Shizugawa Public Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, that was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters, is shown to the press on Nov. 25, 2015. Of the 5.6 billion yen construction cost, 2.2 billion yen was financed by donations from Taiwan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Male greenling at Shizugawa bay

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A male greenling whose scales have taken on a golden color chases another fish as it protects eggs beneath it at a depth of about 13 meters in Shizugawa Bay in the Pacific Ocean off Miyagi Prefecture, on Dec. 1, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Male greenling at Shizugawa bay

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A male greenling whose scales have turned from brown to gold protects eggs laid on rocks and seaweed beneath it at a depth of about 5 meters in Shizugawa Bay in the Pacific Ocean off Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Male greenling at Shizugawa bay

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - A male greenling whose scales have taken on golden coloration protects eggs beneath it at a depth of about 13 meters in Shizugawa Bay in the Pacific Ocean off Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 1, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Disaster-hit hospital

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken June 9, 2011, shows the inside of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly three months after the area was devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Carnations in tsunami-hit areas

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Red carnations are placed in front of the entrance of Shizugawa Hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 7, 2011, ahead of Mother's Day the next day. The area was devastated by the March 11 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Memorial service for disaster victims in Minamisanriku

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Bird images are drawn with lined-up candles at Shizugawa Junior High School in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 11, 2011, to commemorate the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami two months after the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Minamisanriku just before tsunami

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - (1st of 7-part series of photos) Handout photo shows people on the rooftop of a three-story town office building (front) and Shizugawa Hospital (back) in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, at around 3:23 p.m. on March 11, 2011, immediately before a massive tsunami struck the area. (Photo may be used only for newspapers, TV broadcasting. Internet use is prohibited)(Photo courtesy of Shinichi Sato)(Kyodo)

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10. (Kyodo)

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Public hospital in tsunami-hit area reopens

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - An elderly patient receives an examination at a makeshift facility of Shizugawa public hospital, a central hospital in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, an area devastated by the March 11, 2011, tsunami, on April 18. The hospital, which lost 70 of its around 300 inpatients and workers in the disaster, fully reopened at prefab facilities the same day. The hospital is using the prefab units and equipment donated by an Israeli medical aid team that finished its operations in Minamisanriku on April 10. (Kyodo)

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Students at Shizugawa Junior High School

SENDAI, Japan - Students gather in a classroom at Shizugawa Junior High School in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011, for a lecture ahead of the school's official resumption following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Minamisanriku soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same town on March 7, 2012 (bottom). Shizugawa High School is shown in the front. (Kyodo)

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Chilean president visits Minamisanriku

SENDAI, Japan - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and his wife Cecilia Morel stand near the head from a replica of Easter Island's Moai statue, outside Shizugawa High School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 30, 2012. The replica of the famous statue on the island, a Chilean territory, was donated to the town in 1991 by Chile as a symbol of the town's recovery from damage caused by a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in Chile in 1960. The replica was damaged by the March 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Tsunami-hit coastal town

SENDAI, Japan - Low-lying areas (back) along the coast are seen devastated by a tsunami in Minamisanriku, Iwate Prefecture, on March 13, 2011, two days after a massive earthquake and tidal waves. The letters ''SOS'' are drawn on the ground of Shizugawa High School (front) on high land as residents fled to the school premises. (Kyodo)

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Children in disaster area

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Children leave a gymnasium after their graduation ceremony at Shizugawa Elementary School in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 28, 2011. The area was hit hard by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Japan's historic quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the letters ''SOS'' on an athletic field at Shizugawa High School, as people await rescue in tsunami-devastated Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011, two days after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Japan's historic quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the letters ''SOS'' on an athletic field at Shizugawa High School, as people await rescue in tsunami-devastated Minamisanriku in Miyagi Prefecture on March 13, 2011, two days after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Shizugawa Bay in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Oct. 18, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Shizugawa Bay in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan has designated the bay, along with Kasai Marine Park in Tokyo, as important international wetlands for their conservation value based on the Ramsar treaty, the only international conservation body focused on wetlands said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shizugawa Bay in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Oct. 18, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Shizugawa Bay in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan has designated the bay, along with Kasai Marine Park in Tokyo, as important international wetlands for their conservation value based on the Ramsar treaty, the only international conservation body focused on wetlands said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shizugawa Bay in northeastern Japan

Photo taken Oct. 15, 2018, shows Shizugawa Bay in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Japan has designated the bay, along with Kasai Marine Park in Tokyo, as important international wetlands for their conservation value based on the Ramsar treaty, the only international conservation body focused on wetlands said Oct. 18. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo