Surviving Disasters in Japan: It’s the Simple Things That Will Save You

Health workers and other officials from around Japan gather in Miyagino-ku, Sendai, to discuss ways to keep evacuees healthy in the wake of the 3/11 megadisaster. Taken on March 22, 2011.

Community residents form an orderly line at a Sendai store to collect supplies on March 15, 2011, soon after the megadisaster.

With help from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, the Sendai municipal government prepared emergency information in multiple languages following 3/11. (Courtesy Sendai Tourism, Convention, and International Association)