Otsuchi, Japan, Three Years After the Tsunami

On March 11, 2011 a 9.0 earthquake struck Japan. Otsuchi, a small beach community near the northern tip of Honshu, was particularly hard hit. Sixteen hundred of the more than fifteen thousand people who died in the earthquake and tsunami were residents of Otsuchi, about ten per cent of the town’s population.

Argentine photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg asked residents of Otsuchi who had been displaced by the tsunami to pose, at night, in the ruins of their old homes.

In Otsuchi, Japan, women from three generations of a family sit in the
former bathroom of their house, which was destroyed by the 2011 tsunami.

A waterlogged family album that was lost for two years.

Otsuchi’s firefighters on the site of the former fire station.

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