• Associate Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University
Ikuo Yokoyama’s Harley-Davidson, which was swept to sea during the 2011 Japanese tsunami, in Langford, B.C., in May 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

‘Life is a Miracle,’ but learning from disasters isn’t: Lessons from Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami

Memorials, monuments, preserved school buildings and found objects form part of a memory culture that keeps conversations about risk reduction going.

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