When a massive tsunami engulfed the north-eastern coastline of Japan a decade ago, it wiped out everything in its path, flattening villages, killing nearly 20,000 people and triggering a...

2021年7月16日 · Following this huge tremor, a gigantic tsunami struck the north-east region of Tohoku killing almost 15,000 people and leaving 2,500 more missing. “3.11” was the largest …

2020年7月31日 · At a cost of $12bn, they are building a 15-metre-high anti-tsunami wall across 400 kilometres to divide the land from the ocean. But it is also dividing local communities.

2015年3月30日 · This $6.8 billion plan will link 440 sections of wall together to form a 400-kilometre-long (250-mile) wall that in some places will stand more than 12-metres-tall. That's …

2015年11月20日 · The population of 4500 strongly believes in the reliability of the “Great Wall of Japan” constructed around the district to protect them from tsunamis. This massive seawall is …

Four years after the tsunami ravaged much of its northeastern coast and killed over eighteen-thousand people, Japan is constructing a nearly 250-mile chain of cement seawalls to fend off...

2020年5月14日 · After the 2011 Fukushima disaster — a powerful earthquake and tsunami which killed nearly 18,000 people — the Japanese government took a radical step. It decided to build …

2021年3月2日 · When a massive tsunami engulfed the north-eastern coastline of Japan a decade ago, it wiped out everything in its path, flattening villages, killing nearly 20,000 people and …

2021年3月12日 · Ten years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated the north-east region of Japan, a bigger, longer chain of seawalls now stands …

2021年3月2日 · Today, the government’s solution to a future tsunami is to build an even bigger and longer seawall to protect Japan’s coastal communities. Up to 14 metres high and 400 …