OTSUCHI, Iwate Prefecture--An inn here that became one of the most iconic symbols of the deadly force of the tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake is to be torn down ...

Japan's Self-Defense Force sent aircraft to gather information about the tsunami impact around the Okinawa region and prepared shelters for evacuees if necessary. A five-story building in Hualien ...

a city almost wiped out by a tsunami arriving 30 minutes after the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history. Five years later, a ruined apartment building still stands, at left. Four of the five ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—A school building here that was ... preserved among buildings razed by tsunami-triggered fires following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.