The Sendai Airport, which was damaged in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, plans to become the first regional airport to privatize management of its facilities. Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...

Survivors of earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, the largest city in the region hit by earthquake and tsunami, tries to get on with life. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

T he first time I drove into Sendai, Japan, I thought I had arrived in a small town. It was March 13, two days after last year’s earthquake and tsunami killed up to 20,000 people and destroyed ...

“In the two years after the tsunami, Sendai’s economy held up,” said Kosai. “We had a lot of outside help, but now everything’s slowed down. I’m still waiting for a house.

Sendai Yuriage neighborhood detail after the March 11, 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami. Satellite picture courtesy of Google Earth / GeoEye. Sendai Yuriage neighborhood looking west 2008.

A year after the Japan earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011, ABC News catches up with survivors of the disaster. Here are their stories, then and now.

Yutaka Kumagai represents Sendai in the Diet, Japan's congress. When we met him a year ago he seemed in shock -- he'd lost two relatives in the tsunami. "It's like Hiroshima after atomic bomb," he ...

SENDAI, Japan — Tsuyoshi Sato stood at the Sendai Airport fuel farm Thursday evening as a crew of Marines used heavy chains and a military tow truck to pull a car from a one-story pile of ...

ONAGAWA, Japan - As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant. Nearly three weeks later, 240 ...

Fujitsuka in Sendai in 2008, and in 2011 after tsunami. Yuriage in Natori in 2008, and in 2011 after tsunami. World & Nation. Newsletter. Sign up for Essential California.

“In the two years after the tsunami, Sendai’s economy held up,” said Kosai. “We had a lot of outside help, but now everything’s slowed down. I’m still waiting for a house.

Sendai airport after the March 11, 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami. Satellite picture courtesy of […] Google released satellite images revealing the devastation of Sendai airport caused by ...