Pain lingers decade on from tsunami despite reconstruction progress

The pain of loss lingered in the hearts of many as they reflected Thursday on the devastating earthquake and tsunami that engulfed Japan's northeast coast a decade ago, despite few remaining traces of the destruction wreaked on that fateful day.Among the three hardest-hit prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, no single municipality lost more lives than Miyagi's Ishinomaki, where latest government estimates put the death toll from the disaster at about 3,300.At Ishinomaki Minamihama Tsunami Recovery Memorial Park, around 50 local government officials and guests attended the unveiling c…READ FULL ARTICLE