Sendai After the Tsunami

The Sendai City skyline, as seen from a window in the new Sendai Westin Hotel.
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The steps leading up to the Natori shrine.
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A supermarket bag of salt, left at the base of the torii gate in the Natori shrine. The salt is traditionally used for purification.
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A view from atop the hill at the shrine in Natori, looking out across the devastated landscape to the sea.
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Looking out at the devastation from under the shrine’s sacred pine tree.
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Cartoon “Date Masamune” exhorts citizens to rise up and build a better Sendai.
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The devastated area: The first floors of these houses were shredded by the tsunami’s force.
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A shredded house.
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Earth movers are everywhere, gathering the debris into piles for removal.
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The undulating roof of Sendai Airport.
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Disaster reconstruction workers in their incredibly cool duds, at Sendai Airport.
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