Visiting the hotel half-destroyed by the 3-11 tsunami is a powerful reminder of what was lost

This preserved Tohoku building goes from completely devastated to practically unharmed in just a few floors. While travelling in Japan’s northeastern Tohoku region, our Japanese-language reporter Saya put the Taro Kanko Hotel on her itinerary. She wasn’t planning to spend the night, though, and even if she’d wanted to, that’s no longer an option. That’s […]