ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—A school building here that was destroyed in a water-fire combination during the 2011 tsunami has been rebuilt into a disaster memorial. The former Kadonowaki ...

A circa 1925 woodcut by Unpo Takashima depicts Tokyo's Ueno district ablaze ... was followed a few minutes later by a 40-foot-high tsunami. A series of towering waves swept away thousands ...