To see the changes from 2011, use the slider in the below images to see how the landscape ... a city almost wiped out by a tsunami arriving 30 minutes after the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded ...

Looking back, she saw the tsunami rushing in. Without thinking, she snapped three photos with her phone ... Before the Great East Japan Earthquake, around 20 houses stood along “temple street ...

The "Miracle Pine," the only tree that survived in a coastal forest flattened by the deadly tsunami in March 2011 in northeastern Japan, is pictured in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11 ...

After the quake, the Japan Meteorological Agency kept their tsunami warning level low ... RELATED VIDEO: Terrifying Footage and Photos From Alaska Earthquakes Show Decimated Roads, Buildings ...

TOKYO (AFP): Japan issued a tsunami advisory for some coastal regions early Monday (Oct 9) following a series of shallow quakes in the Izu islands in the Pacific Ocean but it was later lifted ...

Japan’s Miyagi prefecture ... can no longer be seen with the rapid development of tsunami safe infrastructure. However, with photos showing what life was once like in Minamisanriku ...