When I was travelling through Hokkaido in 2009, I was taking a train along the coastline from Sapporo to Otaru. It was literally only a few feet higher than sea level, and I thought to myself at the time that if any massive tidal wave hit, there would be nothing left. That day, it was pretty stormy out over the ocean, and I felt really uneasy taking that train. I can only imagine what the people in northern Honshu are going through right now. This is really terrible.
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