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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Panel proposes conservation of 4 facilities wrecked by 2011 disaster

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The steel frame of the Minamisanriku town government's office building for antidisaster measures remains standing in the town in Miyagi Prefecture on Dec. 18, 2014. An advisory panel to the prefectural government decided to recommend the conservation of four facilities, including the frame, wrecked by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a reminder of the disaster.

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Handkerchief printed with tips for antidisaster education

SENDAI, Japan - A Tohoku University staffer shows a handkerchief printed with tips on how to escape from a natural disaster, produced by the national university, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 25.

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Japan-U.S. antidisaster drill

KOCHI, Japan - A disaster medical assistance team taking part in a joint antidisaster drill by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military on a vessel off Tosa, Kochi Prefecture in western Japan, on Feb. 7, 2014, checks procedures for treating patients.

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Japan-U.S. antidisaster drill

KOCHI, Japan - Japan's Self-Defense Force and the U.S. military hold a joint antidisaster drill on a vessel off Tosa, Kochi Prefecture in western Japan, on Feb. 7, 2014.

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Japan, U.S. to hold joint antidisaster drill

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L) holds talks with Lt. Gen. Kenneth Glueck Jr. (R) of the U.S. Marine Corps, at the ministry in Tokyo on July 5, 2013. The two agreed to hold a joint antidisaster drill between Japan's Self-Defense Forces and U.S. forces in Japan as early as the fall 2013.

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Estimates on Nankai quake economic damage

TOKYO, Japan - Antidisaster minister Keiji Furuya holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 18, 2013, on estimates on economic damage from a major Nankai Trough earthquake released earlier in the day by a government panel. The panel says a 9.0-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan will cause about 220 trillion yen in damage, more than twice the entire budget of the government for fiscal 2013.

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2 years after quake

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Photos show an area in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011 (top), two days after the massive earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, and the same location on March 2, 2013, with the frame of the town's antidisaster office visible.

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Aerial view of tsunami-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 3, 2012, shows an area dusted with snow in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck the region. The foundations of buildings swept away in the disaster are visible, as is the town's antidisaster office, also gutted by the tsunami, shown at the bottom.

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U.N. asks Japan to promote importance of disaster preparedness

TOKYO, Japan - Jordan Ryan, head of the U.N. Development Program's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2011. He said the U.N. agency hopes Japan will help promote the importance of antidisaster preparedness among other countries based on its harsh experience of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami last March.

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster.

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Workers conduct disaster drill at nuclear plant in southern Japan

Workers of Kyushu Electric Power Co. gather in the central control room of the Japanese utility's Sendai nuclear power plant for an antidisaster drill in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 1, 2015. (Pool photo by Minami-Nippon Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Anti-disaster drill held at Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan

Workers of Kyushu Electric Power Co. engage in an antidisaster drill at the No. 2 reactor of the Japanese utility's Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 1, 2015. (Pool photo by Mainichi Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster drill conducted at Sendai nuclear plant in southern Japan

Workers of Kyushu Electric Power Co. gather to see if emergency power generators operate properly during an antidisaster drill at the No. 2 reactor of the Japanese utility's Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 1, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. chief calls for ambitious plans at Japan antidisaster confab

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon speaks to Japanese reporters during a press conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on March 11, 2015, prior to the five-day Third U.N. World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction starting on March 14, in Japan's northeastern city of Sendai. Ban expressed hope that the conference will produce a "strong and ambitious" framework to curb disaster risks, calling it essential for achieving the global organization's sustainable development goals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't panel calls for measures against worst-case tsunami

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiaki Kawata, professor at Kansai University, who heads a panel under the Central Disaster Prevention Council, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. The government's antidisaster panel urged authorities to prepare for worst-case tsunami in an interim report following the March 11 disaster. (Kyodo)

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Aerial view of tsunami-hit area

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 3, 2012, shows an area dusted with snow in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, nearly a year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck the region. The foundations of buildings swept away in the disaster are visible, as is the town's antidisaster office, also gutted by the tsunami, shown at the bottom. (Kyodo)

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U.N. asks Japan to promote importance of disaster preparedness

TOKYO, Japan - Jordan Ryan, head of the U.N. Development Program's Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 7, 2011. He said the U.N. agency hopes Japan will help promote the importance of antidisaster preparedness among other countries based on its harsh experience of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami last March. (Kyodo)

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Repair works of antidisaster office building completed

The antidisaster office building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku is unveiled on Feb. 15, 2017, following repair work. It is still being debated if the building, at which 43 people died when it was engulfed by tsunami in March 2011, should be preserved as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Repair works of antidisaster office building completed

The antidisaster office building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku is unveiled on Feb. 15, 2017, following repair work. It is still being debated if the building, at which 43 people died when it was engulfed by tsunami in March 2011, should be preserved as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Repair works of antidisaster office building completed

The antidisaster office building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku is unveiled on Feb. 15, 2017, following repair work. It is still being debated if the building, at which 43 people died when it was engulfed by tsunami in March 2011, should be preserved as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Repair works of antidisaster office building completed

The antidisaster office building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku is unveiled on Feb. 15, 2017, following repair work. It is still being debated if the building, at which 43 people died when it was engulfed by tsunami in March 2011, should be preserved as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Repair works of antidisaster office building completed

The antidisaster office building in the northeastern Japan town of Minamisanriku is unveiled on Feb. 15, 2017, following repair work. It is still being debated if the building, at which 43 people died when it was engulfed by tsunami in March 2011, should be preserved as a symbol of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan, Pacific island states affirm antidisaster cooperation

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from L) holds talks with leaders from 10 Pacific island nations in New York on Sept. 20, 2016 on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. They agreed to continue cooperation in tackling climate change, disaster risk reduction and other areas of common challenges. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Floating antidisaster base heads for Osaka

SAKAIDE, Japan - The ''Minifloat'' antidisaster offshore base, a 6,900-ton transportable floating platform, leaves Sakaide, Kagawa Prefecture, western Japan, where it was built, on March 13 for Osaka. The 80-meter x 40-meter platform is capable of docking ships of around 2,000 tons, serving as a large-scale heliport, and carrying enough food and water supplies for 100,000 disaster victims.