The Meiji Sanriku tsunami ... to mark the disaster of June 15, 1896. In March 2011, the deadly tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake tore off half the plaque from the monument ...

It was estimated to have been 135 years old. It is thought to have survived huge tsunami, such as those generated by the 1896 Sanriku earthquake that claimed 22,000 lives. It would have been 20 ...