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Rei escapes disaster

a great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami graphic novel
2025
"The year is 2011, and an earthquake has just hit Tohoku, Japan! Twelve-year-old Rei is sitting in class, thinking about the argument she just had with her best friend, when the earthquake strikes. After six long minutes of rumbling, the class can finally leave their school and gather outside. There they hear the tsunami alarm, warning them to get to higher land! Can Rei and her classmates win their race to safety, and what will they leave behind?"--OCLC.
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Ghosts of the tsunami

death and life in Japan's disaster zone
2017
An intimate account of the 120-foot-high tsunami that occured off the coast of Japan in 2011, as told from the perspectives of those who lived through it.

The phone booth at the edge of the world

When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life.

Japan earthquake and tsunami survival stories

Discusses the disasters that struck Japan in 2011, including a major earthquake followed by a tsunami that caused an accident in a nuclear power plant, and recounts stories of some of the survivors.
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I survived the Japanese tsunami, 2011

In 2011, while visiting his father's hometown in Japan shortly after his death, Ben finds himself and his family being swept away by a terrible tsunami that leaves him stranded and alone in a strange country, far from home.

I survived the Japanese tsunami, 2011

2017
In 2011, while visiting his father's hometown in Japan shortly after his death, Ben finds himself and his family being swept away by a terrible tsunami that leaves him stranded and alone in a strange country, far from home.

Up from the sea

2017
A novel in verse about the March 2011 tsunami that sent Japan into chaos, told from the point-of-view of Kai, a biracial teenaged boy.
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Hotaka

2017
When the tsunami strikes the Japanese seaside town of Omori-wan, the effects are utterly devastating. Three years later, much of what happened on that day is still a mystery. As Hotaka sets about convincing local performers to appear at the town's upcoming Memorial Concert, he finds himself increasingly haunted by memories of best friend, Takeshi, who perished without trace in the tsunami. Then his friend Sakura becomes involved in an anti-seawall movement, and all too quickly the protest gets serious. As the town and its people struggle to rebuild their lives, can Hotaka piece together what happened that day - and let go of the past?.

Swept away

the story of the 2011 Japanese tsunami
2017
Discusses the history of the 2011 Japanese tsunami.

The Japanese Tsunami, 2011

2014
A massive earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan while Ben is visiting his late father's hometown, pulling Ben's family apart and leaving him stranded in a strange country during an epic disaster.

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