Long-Term Recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster - Post-Tsunami Hazard: Reconstruction and Restoration - page 9

this community individually moved to higher ground. Although Aneyoshi sustained
the highest tsunami inundation height in the EJED of 38.9 m, the tsunami did not
reach the monument.

1.3.3 Resettlement Sites with Slight Damage

Communities remaining at the original resettlement sites and did not expand to
lower ground sustained minor damage due to the EJED because the elevation of the
resettlement sites were determined based on previous tsunamis. Damage in these
communities is very limited, but some houses near the sea were damaged. Two of
the resettlement sites from the Meiji and Showa Tsunami Disasters correspond to
this type of damage: Funakoshi (Yamada, Iwate) and Ootani (Kesennuma, Miyagi).
Photo 1.1 shows damage in these communities.
These two communities resettled on higher ground after the Meiji Tsunami.
After the Showa Tsunami, the damage was limited to low land residents (24 housing
units at Funakoshi and 27 housing units in Ootani). People have remained on higher
ground since the Meiji recovery. Another point about these communities is the loca-
tion of the community center. These communities face a national highway, which
runs on higher ground, and the business area is located along the highway. Business
areas on higher ground and residents remaining in the original resettlement sites
may have successfully reduced the damage from the EJED.

Photo 1.1 Meiji resettled community; ( a ) Funakoshi, no residential use in low land, ( b ) Funakoshi
community after the EJED; ( c ) Ootani community (Source: Miyagi Prefectural Government)