Japan’s Earthquake Recovery Offers Hard Lessons for Türkiye

Ships washed away by tsunami sit on the land near a port in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, on March 13, 2011, after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake hit its eastern coast on March 11. (AP)

Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived.

What's left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? What lingers over a decade later, even as the rest of the world moves on?