By TATSUYA SHIMADA/ Staff Writer
March 11, 2024 at 18:25 JST
Top: The long horizontal building in the lower left is Shizugawa Hospital, seen here in the Shizugawa district of flooded Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 13, 2011; above: The Shizugawa district of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 24. Shizugawa Hospital was demolished, and the town’s disaster prevention office building, where 43 people, including employees, were killed, can be seen in the center. (Tatsuya Shimada)
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