Monument to 40 victims of 2011 tsunami unveils

Monument to 40 victims of 2011 tsunami unveiled at ex-site of Japan town hall. A ceremony to unveil a stone monument commemorating people who died when tsunami hit a town hall in northeastern Japan in 2011 has taken place where the building used to stand.

Forty town officials, including the then-mayor, lost their lives. About 50 people attended the ceremony in Iwate Prefecture’s Otsuchi Town on Sunday. Among them were family members of victims and local high school students who are engaged in activities aimed at passing on stories about the March 11, 2011 disaster. The monument is about 1.7 meters tall. It was erected where the tsunami-hit town hall stood before it was demolished in 2019.