Members of the Japan Self Defence force walk through the snow-covered ruins of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami March 16, 2011.

2011年3月16日，岩手县釜石市，在该地区被里氏9.0级地震和海啸摧毁后数天，日本自卫队员行走在白雪覆盖的废墟中。

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Members of the Japan Self Defence force walk through the snow-covered ruins of Kamaishi Iwate Prefecture days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami March 16 2011.

2011年3月16日，日本岩手县釜石市，在该地区被里氏9.0级地震及海啸摧毁后数天，日本自卫队员们走过白雪覆盖的废墟。

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Further afield, Kenji World, (81-19) 695-3333, in northern Japan's Iwate prefecture, boasts a colossal onsen "beach" where warm water washes up on the shore (made of brownish soft board instead of sand).

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In the fourteenth or fifteenth century, when the people of Iwate Prefecture in the northern part of mainland Japan worshipped Mt.

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It was centered on Aomori and Iwate prefectures on the northeast end of Honshu, Japan's main island.

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