The Seawall at Fudai

On March 11, 2011, a 9. 0 earthquake shook the Pacific floor and sent a forty-foot tsunami racing toward Japan's northeastern coast. Entire towns vanished. Nearly twenty thousand people perished. But in the tiny fishing village of Fudai, population three thousand, not a single life was lost. Decades earlier, the village mayor, Kotoku Wamura, had survived a devastating tsunami as a child.…