Devastated communities, an unseen fear: Japan`s 2011 tsunami
(WorldNews Japan)

I`ll never forget the moment we arrived in the city of Natori. Our crew had driven overnight from Tokyo following the earthquake. The sun was shining on a cold crisp morning. As we got off the highway, we stopped to ask the chief at a fire station where damage from the tsunami was. He told us to drive down the street a few blocks and turn right. Nothing could have prepared us for what we saw. We were miles from the coast, but almost half the city of 80,000 had been levelled. It was as if a giant hand had come up out of the ocean and pulled all the structures of Natori into the waters of the Pacific. What remained were stretches of mud and fragments of civilisation – overturned cars,...