GREEN CREDENTIALS: Yamagata Valley seen from the top of Yamadera Temple
Photography Markus Bidaux
BATTLE STATIONS: Tsurugayo Castle
All around us the land has been bulldozed flat and in the distance is the sea that caused so much destruction. We are in what is left of Natori, a town where on 11 March 2011 a major earthquake caused a tsunami that took the lives of more than 950 people and destroyed nearly 3,000 homes.