The New York Daily News has this interesting street-level view of the  Japanese coastal town of Namie. The mayor of the small town invited Google to take it’s vehicle-mounted Street View cameras on a tour.

The tsunami was two years ago on March 11, 2011, and many places, including Namie, have yet to recover.

—Patti Epler

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