When Kimiaki Toda was a child, he watched with admiration as his village’s sea wall turned back a tsunami triggered on the other side of the Pacific by the 1960 earthquake in Chile.
Yet, when Mr Toda went back this week to see the same concrete barrier on north-eastern Japan’s Yoshihama Bay, he found little left.
“When the Chile tsunami came 50 years ago, I was a schoolboy in Yoshihama and I looked up at that wall as a success,” says Mr Toda, now mayor of the town of Ofunato of which Yoshihama is a part. “But this time it was completely demolished.”
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