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A special report: Channel 4 News returns eight months on from a disaster which redrew a coastline and redefined a nation.
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A boat sits on its side next to a learning building in Kesennuma.
In pictures: after the tsunami 21 November 2011

Eight months on, Channel 4 News returns to the scene of Japan's tsunami.

A minute's silence for the victims Ishinomaki (Reuters)
World / Japan The ghost school of Ishinomaki 14 November 2011 Alex Thomson

Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki's Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.

Eight months after Fukushima's nuclear plant was hit by an earthquake and tsunami, journalists were taken on a tour of the site.
In pictures: Fukushima eight months on 12 November 2011

Eight months after Fukushima's nuclear plant was hit by an earthquake and tsunami, journalists were taken on a tour of the site.

As journalists are taken to the Fukushima nuclear plant, devastated by the tsunami and earthquake last March, Alex Thomson meets families facing a future in limbo (Reuters)
World / Japan Fukushima families in limbo as media visit plant 12 November 2011 Alex Thomson

On the day journalists are taken to the Fukushima nuclear plant, devastated by March's tsunami and earthquake, Alex Thomson meets some of the families evacuated to Tokyo in the wake of the disaster.

The world's largest recycling operation is going on in post-tsunami Japan as Alex Thomson discovers
World / Japan Recycling Japan's tsunami-hit towns 11 November 2011 Alex Thomson

Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson returns to Japan's tsunami-hit towns to witness the world's largest recycling operation.

A Tsunami hit town in Japan revisited eight months on
Debris and devastation in Minamisanriku 10 November 2011

Pictures from Minamisanriku, revisited by the Channel 4 News team eight months on from the devastating tsunami.

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