'Life is a miracle,' but learning from disasters isn't: Lessons from Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami

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Mar 15, 2026, 4:30 pm89 ptsTrending
In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northeastern Japan a year earlier, in March 2011. Yokoyama lost his home and three family…

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