Solar panels in front of a digger being used to raise the level of the land against  future tsunami near Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Friday March 11th 2016. The magnitude 9, Great East Japan earthquake struck at 2:46 on March 11th 2011 and caused  a tsunami that flattened  large parts of the Tohoku coast killing around 18,000 people and caused and nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daichi Power station. Solar farms are being built in the affected areas which will not be used as residential or agricultural  land again.
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