Talk:Rikuzentakata, Iwate

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City Hall

I'm not at all clear that the City Hall is in fact destroyed as reported in the caption on the picture. News reports indicate that people were running up the stairs of the bulding as the waters rose, and that those who made it to the roof survived (about 100 people). http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/tsunami-preparation-leads-citizens-into-low-lying-death-traps/article1943381/ This doesn't seem consistent with the building being "destroyed" in the way the completely flattened buildings around it have been destroyed. However, I don't see how to edit the caption! Morag Kerr (talk) 11:54, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, found the text, and removed it. If news comes in that the building has indeed collapsed, it can always be reverted. Morag Kerr (talk) 11:57, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just appeared on the BBC Have Your Say feed. "Tetsuo Jimbo, editor of the Japanese website videonews.com, has just come back from Rikuzen Takada, one of the cities worst affected by the disaster. He told BBC World Service that about 20% of the population of the city has lost a family member. "The whole city is in grief right now. The city is completely wiped out, there's nothing left, no houses. The city hall is gone, the police station, the fire station, they are all gone. It's very difficult to even come up with words like reconstruction or rebuilding right now."

This suggests the City Hall has actually been destroyed, but on the other hand it is a lot more optimistic on the death toll than some of the things we've been hearing. Morag Kerr (talk) 16:09, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Coastline photograph

That nice photo of the coast seems to be in the wrong place, as it is "antediluvian" to coin a phrase. Is there anywhere it can be placed in the article among the information on the town as it was prior to March 2011? 143.234.196.80 (talk) 08:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

News coverage

A long front-page article in The Wall Street Journal on Saturday 9 April 2011 tells more about the tsunami impact on this town. It sounds like the four-story City Hall building was badly damaged but not washed away, as city officials and bystanders who reached the rooftop were able to survive. The story said 10% of the population, or 2,300 people were dead or missing. Jrgilb (talk) 02:46, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mayor

Under "Politics and government" it says:

"Rikuzentakata is governed by mayor Nagato Nakasato, an independent supported by the Japanese Communist Party. The city assembly has 20 elected members."

However, under "2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami effects" it says:

"The town's mayor, Futoshi Toba, was at his post at the city hall and survived, but his wife was killed at their seaside home."

So which is the correct mayor? I would think it would be the latter (Futoshi Toba) as this is supported by a citation, and may be more recent that the earlier info (which is not supported by a citation), but someone may need to verfy this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.162.126.190 (talk) 01:12, 3 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Was reported" is misleading

The town was extensively damaged during the tsunami. The article talks about how that was reported, but what was reported is rather irrelevant, compared with what happened. Can we change that sentence to be more direct? --Douglaspperkins (talk) 16:13, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Reminder of the 2011 tsunami height

Memories of talking in a life-saving building 10 years after the earthquake on YouTube --Anoneska (talk) 15:16, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]