Tōhoku region
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The Tōhoku region, Northeast region, Ōu region, or Northeast Japan consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It consists of six prefectures: Akita, Aomori, Fukushima
Mōtsū-ji portrait of three generations of the Northern Fujiwara. The top is Fujiwara no Kiyohira, the right is Fujiwara no Motohira, the left figure is Fujiwara no Hidehira.
Cast iron teapots like this one sit atop stoves during the long winters in Tōhoku.
Aizuwakamatsu Castle after the Battle of Aizu, 1868 photograph
Mount Iwate dominates the city of Morioka
On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 JST, a Mw 9.0–9.1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan. It lasted approximately
Tōhoku region
…industry, pulp, and petroleum refining industries began developing. The region is traditionally known as a less developed area of Japan. The catastrophic 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, inflicted massive damage along the east coast of this region, causing 19,759 deaths, and was the costliest natural disaster ever…
A helicopter flies over the port of Sendai to deliver food to survivors.
2011 Japan shakemap
A seismogram recorded in Massachusetts, United States
Soil liquefaction in Kōtō, Tokyo