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Japan: Storm Systems Bring 100 mm/h Downpour, Causing Flooding in Miyagi

Storm systems brought widespread heavy rain across eastern and northern Japan on Wednesday, October 1. In Miyagi Prefecture, weather alerts were issued as torrential rainfall of approximately 100 mm per hour was reported, causing road floods. Evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of homes in Tagajo.

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Japan: Tsunami Surges Up River in Miyagi After Massive Quake Off Kamchatka Peninsula

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's eastern coast triggered a tsunami warning for a wide area along Japan's Pacific coast on Wednesday, July 30. A tsunami was observed surging upstream in the Sunaoshi River, which runs through the center of Tagajo City in Miyagi Prefecture.

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Crown princess visits historical site in northeastern Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko visits an ancient historical site in Tagajo in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on July 15, 2025.

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Crown princess visits historical site in northeastern Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko visits an ancient historical site in Tagajo in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi on July 15, 2025.

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No anomalies detected after Fukushima water release

Researchers check tritium levels in fish taken from waters off Fukushima Prefecture at the Marine Ecology Research Institute's facility in Tagajo in neighboring Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 26, 2023, two days after Japan commenced the discharge of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. No detectable amount of tritium was found in the fish samples, according to the Japanese government.

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Drill against cyberattacks done at security center

TOKYO, Japan - Staff members at the Control System Security Center conduct a simulated exercise at its headquarters in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this file photo taken in November 2013 to prepare for possible cyberspace attacks on various lifeline facilities and other critical infrastructure as the central government fears such attacks targeting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will probably increase.

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Biggest plant factory with LED lighting built in quake-hit city

TAGAJO, Japan - A worker tends to vegetables at the world's largest plant factory using light-emitting diode lighting in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 2, 2014. Mirai Co., a Tokyo-based company that runs vegetable growing facilities, has built the factory, which is expected to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce and other vegetables per day, in the northeastern Japan city devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Biggest plant factory with LED lighting built in quake-hit city

TAGAJO, Japan - A worker walks inside the world's largest plant factory using light-emitting diode lighting in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 2, 2014. Mirai Co., a Tokyo-based company that runs vegetable growing facilities, has built the factory, which is expected to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce and other vegetables per day, in the northeastern Japan city devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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German fugitive turns himself in

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers ask drivers about Petro Vladimirovic Shchus, a German fugitive, in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 14, 2013. Shchus turned himself in at a police box in the prefecture later in the day. He ran away from a police station in the prefecture the previous day while being questioned about his alleged assault on two employees at a local hotel on Oct. 30.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, sing in New York on July 24, 2012. The high school students from the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Gosei Arima, a student from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks on his disaster experience in New York on July 24, 2012. Twenty-six students from the school in the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Sahoko Baba, a student from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks on her disaster experience in New York on July 24, 2012. Twenty-six students from the school in the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, sing in New York on July 24, 2012. The high school students from the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) kisses a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Japan earthquake

SENDAI, Japan - Smoke billows from a fire at a petroleum gas plant in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011, a day after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake.

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(2) Drunk driver kills 3 students, injures 22

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers check the scene in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, where three teenagers were killed and 22 others injured on May 22 when a sport-utility vehicle ran a red light at an intersection and struck a car waiting to make a left-hand turn.

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(1)Drunk driver kills 3 students, injures 22 others

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on May 22 shows the scene in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, where three teenagers were killed and 22 others injured when a sport-utility vehicle ran a red light at an intersection and struck a car waiting to make a left-hand turn. Both vehicles plowed into a line of high school students crossing the street, police said.

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(1)Drunk driver kills 3 students, injures 22 others

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on May 22 shows the scene in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, where three teenagers were killed and 22 others injured when a sport-utility vehicle ran a red light at an intersection and struck a car waiting to make a left-hand turn. Both vehicles plowed into a line of high school students crossing the street, police said. (Kyodo)

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(2) Drunk driver kills 3 students, injures 22

SENDAI, Japan - Police officers check the scene in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, where three teenagers were killed and 22 others injured on May 22 when a sport-utility vehicle ran a red light at an intersection and struck a car waiting to make a left-hand turn. (Kyodo)

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FEATURE: Gov't, industry work to protect key infrastructure from cyberattacks

Photo taken Feb. 13, 2017 shows drill participants responding to a mock cyberattack at the Control System Security Center, an association of more than 30 private companies and governmental organs based in the northeastern Japan city of Tagajo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tree-planting drive in tsunami-hit Miyagi spawns hope for fresh greenery

A family plants tree saplings at the Hachiman Shrine in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, during an event on June 14, 2015, to regenerate a forest at the shrine where 800 Japanese cedar trees were swept away in the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak holds a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) kisses a girl at an evacuation center for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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S. Korean president visits disaster-hit region

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak (L) offers words of encouragement to a survivor of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at an evacuation center in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 21, 2011. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japan earthquake

SENDAI, Japan - Smoke billows from a fire at a petroleum gas plant in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011, a day after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Drill against cyberattacks done at security center

TOKYO, Japan - Staff members at the Control System Security Center conduct a simulated exercise at its headquarters in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in this file photo taken in November 2013 to prepare for possible cyberspace attacks on various lifeline facilities and other critical infrastructure as the central government fears such attacks targeting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will probably increase. (Kyodo)

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Biggest plant factory with LED lighting built in quake-hit city

TAGAJO, Japan - A worker tends to vegetables at the world's largest plant factory using light-emitting diode lighting in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 2, 2014. Mirai Co., a Tokyo-based company that runs vegetable growing facilities, has built the factory, which is expected to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce and other vegetables per day, in the northeastern Japan city devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Lego model of Taga Castle gate

Photo taken on May 14, 2021, shows a Lego model of the south gate of Taga Castle on display at a Danish design exhibition at Tohoku History Museum in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Tagajo, northeastern Japan. About 9,500 Lego bricks were used to make the Lego model of the castle, built in 724, for public display through June 27.

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Lego model of Taga Castle gate

Photo taken on May 14, 2021, shows a Lego model of the south gate of Taga Castle on display at a Danish design exhibition at Tohoku History Museum in the Miyagi Prefecture city of Tagajo, northeastern Japan. About 9,500 Lego bricks were used to make the Lego model of the castle, built in 724, for public display through June 27.