An initial tsunami wave approximately 1 meter (3.2 feet) high made landfall within 30 minutes of the earthquake, the Associated Press reported, citing Japanese public broadcaster NHK TV.

This video is from a Japan Coast Guard ship, confronting a tsunami wave in shallow water on March 11th. And a rare view from the air: video of a tsunami wave approaching the shoreline. In Japan ...

Perched along the scenic coastline of Japan’s Iwate prefecture, the Taro Kanko Hotel once stood as a symbol of hospitality, ...

For those traveling through Japan’s Iwate prefecture, a visit to Takata Matsubara Memorial Park for Tsunami Disaster and the ...

For decades, Kotoku Wamura was mocked for building an enormous floodgate in his village. But when a massive tsunami struck, ...

On this anniversary, Japan is slowly rebuilding ... Toni, Iwate Prefecture: The tsunami wall was not enough to hold back the wave that hit these homes. Even the homes high on the hill (in the top left ...

The National Police Agency lists 2,520 victims of the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster as missing, and they cannot be added ...

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Japan's Noto Peninsula is reeling ... often giving people several minutes of warning that a wave may strike. In contrast, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hit a number of islands with no formal ...

Christmas in 2004, when a 9.1-magnitude earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra set off a mammoth wave that was ...