He opposed building a massive tsunami wall, a sentiment shared by most residents. He became deputy chairman of a council set up jointly by residents and local officials to hash out rebuilding plans.

The school is now a 228ft-long, three-storey building, protected by a 7ft reinforced concrete ‘tsunami wall’ decorated with murals copied from pupils’ drawings of the sea. The first fully ...

It also built an anti-tsunami wall extending up to 29 meters (95 feet) above sea level, and obtained safety approval from ...

Kehoe then heard tourists on the beach start screaming and saw them scrambling as they looked up at a 40-foot high wall of water rushing toward the island. The tsunami killed more than 220,000 in ...

“But they were vulnerable to the high tsunami waves.” When the flooding hit, the ‘tsunami walls’ made to protect the plant from such events were too low to prevent the sea water from entering the ...

When the man looked down on the settlement through gaps in the trees, he saw walls of waves approaching the shore. He heard the tsunami crashing ahead as well as automobile horns beeping.