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Ex-rugby stalwart Ishiyama

KAMAISHI, Japan, Aug. 20 Kyodo - Jiro Ishiyama (R), a former prop of the Nippon Steel Kamaishi team, plays during an opening event for Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2018. Ishiyama helped build the stadium as a construction worker.

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Disaster prevention center torn down in Kamaishi, Japan

KAMAISHI, Japan - A disaster prevention center in the Unosumai district of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, where many local residents died in the March 2011 tsunami after taking refuge there, is being torn down on Jan. 11, 2014. Bereaved family members frequented the facility to offer prayers at an alter set up inside, but the building's demolition was completed in February. A facility commemorating the victims is scheduled to be built at the site.

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Rugby World Cup games in Kamaishi

Rugby fans in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, fly big catch flags, following a tradition in the fishing town, during an opening event for the Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium on Aug. 19, 2018. The stadium will host two games during the Rugby World Cup in 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup games in Kamaishi

Buses are parked near the Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium during an opening event on Aug. 19, 2018, in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, for the venue of two games at the Rugby World Cup in 2019. ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup games in Kamaishi

An opening event takes place at the Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2018, one of the host venues of the Rugby World Cup in 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-rugby stalwart Jiro Ishiyama

Jiro Ishiyama, a former Japan rugby player, poses at Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 4, 2018. The retired loosehead prop of the national team and the now-defunct Nippon Steel Kamaishi Works team helped build the stadium as a construction worker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-rugby stalwart Jiro Ishiyama

Jiro Ishiyama, a former Japan rugby player, poses at Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 4, 2018. The retired loosehead prop of the national team and the now-defunct Nippon Steel Kamaishi Works team helped build the stadium as a construction worker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium

Photo shows a sea wall (back) at Otsuchi Bay near Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2018, two days before the stadium opens. Built on the grounds of two schools that were badly damaged by the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, the stadium has been purpose-built for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-rugby stalwart Ishiyama

Jiro Ishiyama (R), a former prop of the Nippon Steel Kamaishi team, plays during an opening event for Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2018. Ishiyama helped build the stadium as a construction worker. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium

Photo shows some of the seats at Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium, in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2018, two days before the stadium opens. The stadium's permanent seats are made either from locally grown cedar wood or recycled from Kumamoto Prefecture Athletic Stadium, the old National Stadium in Tokyo or ballpark Tokyo Dome. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamaishi hotel owner Iwasaki

Akiko Iwasaki, owner of Houraikan, a hotel in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, poses in front of a rugby poster at her hotel on Aug. 17, 2018, two days before the nearby Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium opens. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium

Photo shows the main stand of Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 17, 2018, two days before the stadium opens. Built on the grounds of two schools that were badly damaged by the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, the stadium has been purpose-built for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan: Fiji v Uruguay

A fishermen's flag is waved on Sept. 25, 2019, at Unosumai Station in Kamaishi to welcome spectators of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Fiji and Uruguay in the coastal city in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan: Fiji v Uruguay

Fishermen's flags are waved in front of Unosumai Station in Kamaishi on Sept. 25, 2019, to welcome spectators of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Fiji and Uruguay in the coastal city in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan: Fiji v Uruguay

A fishermen's flag is waved on Sept. 25, 2019, at Unosumai Station in Kamaishi to welcome spectators of a Rugby World Cup Pool D match between Fiji and Uruguay in the coastal city in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup

Rui Horaguchi, a 17-year-old high school student in Kamaishi, a northeastern Japan city severely damaged by the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, is pictured on Sept. 13, 2019, at Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium, built on the former site of her elementary school, destroyed by the disaster. The stadium will host two Rugby World Cup matches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup

Rui Horaguchi, a 17-year-old high school student in Kamaishi, a northeastern Japan city severely damaged by the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, is pictured on Sept. 13, 2019, at Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium, built on the former site of her elementary school, destroyed by the disaster. The stadium will host two Rugby World Cup matches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup

Rui Horaguchi, a 17-year-old high school student in Kamaishi, a northeastern Japan city severely damaged by the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, is pictured on Sept. 13, 2019, at Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium, built on the former site of her elementary school, destroyed by the disaster. The stadium will host two Rugby World Cup matches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan

Rui Horaguchi, a 16-year-old high school student in Kamaishi, a northeastern Japan city severely damaged by the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, makes a speech on Aug. 19, 2018, during a ceremony marking the completion of Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium, built on the former site of her elementary school, destroyed by the disaster. The stadium will host two Rugby World Cup matches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan

File photo taken July 2019 in Kamaishi, a northeastern Japan city that was battered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, shows Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium, a venue for the Rugby World Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rugby World Cup in Japan

Journalists inspect on Aug. 18, 2019, Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium in Kamaishi, a northeastern Japan city severely damaged by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. The stadium is a venue for the Rugby World Cup in Japan starting in September. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit railway resumes operation

A train on Sanriku Railway's Rias Line is welcomed by people at Unosumai Station in Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 24, 2019, as regular services resume for the first time since heavy damage caused by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit railway resumes operation

A train on Sanriku Railway's Rias Line is welcomed by people at Unosumai Station in Kamaishi in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 24, 2019, as regular services resume for the first time since heavy damage caused by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World Cup games in Kamaishi

Photo taken on Feb. 18, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Unosumai area in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, almost devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in the March 11, 2011 disaster. The Kamaishi Unosumai Memorial Stadium was built on a riverside lot (R, top) to host games in the Rugby World Cup in 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo