Newly published photos show a group of people who tried to climb and hang on a small antenna pole and a building roof when a ferocious tsunami hit the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11. just past.
This is a picture of tsunami sweeping through Minamisanriku, northeastern Japan on March 11 last.This first photo shows survivors clinging to an antenna column and handrail on the roof of the government's Disaster Center, three stories high, when the tsunami swept over.
The antenna column on the roof of the building is about 12m high and the group tries to hold a pillar of 30 people.
But only 9 of them survived the cataclysm.
When the tsunami passes, the water recedes, all that remains is this skeleton.
Aerial photographs show roads in Rikuzentakata after the tsunami left by the tsunami has been cleaned up.
Heavy motor vehicles on the 'top' of a rubble of tsunami left when swept across the city of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture.
The car was swept away by the tsunami onto the roof of Onagawa
A house was washed away 'on the beach' in Onagawa
The houses were destroyed in Onagawa
Ogawa, 52, a tsunami survivor who carried the jar containing her husband's ashes in front of the wreckage of their house at Otsuchi.
Miyoko Tazaki, 79, and his grandchildren find missing relatives in the coastal city of Otsuchi.
Watch a new video of tsunami hitting the northeastern coast of Japan:
