The victims of the earthquake disaster are numerous.

Yamamoto Cho has had a declining population.

That's how I felt. So, after the disaster,

Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters.

Actually the history for our earthquake countermeasures began here.

Earthquakes and floods are natural disasters.

The earthquake brought about the fire.

The earthquake brought about disaster.

The earthquake in Haiti was a disaster.

After the earthquake, the land value in this area went down a lot.

It was about two meters high, completely squashed by the violence of the earthquake.

I lost this oblong Japanese brazier in an earthquake.

Of course, I still love it today.

As in this case, we have done training in cooperation with various institutions.

The earthquake which caused the disaster occurred in 1995.

The city supplied the earthquake victims with food and blankets.

Japan has had the experience of being hit by major earthquake disasters, since it is a country which has historically had many earthquakes.

My parents and little brother, who lived in the suburbs of Tokyo, died in the big earthquake.

In the Hanshin earthquake, the ground shook for a long time.

Since this is during the disaster, many patients are shown here.

They loaded the trucks with emergency supplies for the earthquake victims.

During the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, the height of the tsunami waves reached up to 37.9 meters.

During the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, the height of the tsunami waves reached up to 37.9 meters.

Can the quake devastated Yamamoto Cho become prosperous like them as well?

I am 87 years old now.

Since a large area was devastated by the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, a sustained help effort is sought.

The rescue workers are going to hand out supplies to the victims of the earthquake.

Is the truth this, that really nobody knows when or if it'll ever be safe to return to your home? SPEAKlNG JAPANESE

And, with all of you,

This area is usually a waiting room for outpatients.

The best way to keep them there is to scare you to death.

I believe many of you here today are hoping to find an answer to this question.

Yet, this has been going on since before the disaster.

For all the disaster, there is an opportunity here to build better houses for the next generation, so that when the next earthquake hits, it is a disaster but not a tragedy.

After this experience, our task is to find out what we can do, from Tohoku, to invent our future.

I realized that there's no way I was going to leave Japan this time.

The earthquake was the greatest disaster the country had ever experienced.

The earthquake provoked a great disaster, one unlike anything that the country had experienced before.

After the 3 11 earthquake, what we need to do is to develop a sustainable society and future.

Isn't it an earthquake?

The Japan Meteorological Agency has revised the magnitude of the eastern Japan quake from 8.8 to 9.0, the largest recorded in world history.

This is a picture of a recent experiment we did actually not so recent anymore in Sendai, shortly after the earthquake.

Nearly 7000 people were killed, and the city like this Nagata district, all the city was burned in a fire after the earthquake.

Nearly 7,000 people were killed, and the city like this Nagata district, all the city was burned in a fire after the earthquake.

Our concept is to create a school where children can live harmoniously with the natural environment around them.