A year after the Japan earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011, ABC News catches up with survivors of the disaster. Here are their stories, then and now.

In March 2011, Japan endured the strongest earthquake in its recorded history followed by a severe tsunami. The Tohoku tsunami involved waves 40 meters/132 feet high and over 15,500 deaths. Over ...

The plan was for Mike and five other activists to meet up in Otsuchi, a coastal city in Northeastern Japan, and document the Dall's porpoise slaughter, which kills about 40,000 porpoises annually.

Like nearly 18,000 others on the Japanese coast, she hadn’t survived the tsunami in March. Tears rolled down my cheek as I stood and watched this final act of remembrance, perhaps the outpouring ...

Zahrul Fuadi, of Aceh, Indonesia, managed to survive the brutal 2004 tsunami that killed more than 220,000 — only to live through Japan’s Sendai earthquake and tsunami earlier this month.

A magnitude 9.0 quake rocked Japan, triggered a tsunami and set off a race to cool nuclear reactors. After Tsunami, Japanese Turn To Ancient Rituals. March 17, 2011 12:01 AM ET.

After surviving the 2004 tsunami in Aceh, Zahrul Fuadi was then caught up in this month's disaster in Japan, making him perhaps unique in surviving two of the biggest tsunamis in recent history.

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