{"id":2354547,"date":"2025-01-01T13:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2354547\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T13:09:44","slug":"how-a-visionary-mayor-saved-his-town-from-a-massive-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2354547\/","title":{"rendered":"How a visionary mayor saved his town from a massive tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"How a visionary mayor saved his town from a massive tsunami\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WR3vZTWz10U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow a visionary mayor saved his town from a massive tsunami<\/p>\n<p>Fudai is a small town on the northern coast of Iwate prefecture. The interview with Mr. Maekawa was conducted right in front of the Fudai Watergate here: https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/GhTpN7jwRvuCAe8E8<\/p>\n<p>One of the highlights of the MCT in Fudai is Nedarihama, here: https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/fym9fCrjqyiQBhJXA<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a full-time guide, mostly up in Tohoku (northeast Japan) but I also guide groups up Mt. Fuji in the pre and post season as well as lead normal tours in places like Kyoto, Nara, and Tokyo when contracted. <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.gonorthjapan.com\/<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in hiring me to guide you either on a hike or around town, send me an email through this channel or message me on Instagram or Twitter. Some additional info is available here: https:\/\/gonorthjapan.com\/<\/p>\n<p>If you like my videos and would like to help me produce more and better videos, consider supporting me on Patreon!  I also post monthly Patreon-exclusive drone videos, if that interests you! https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/GoNorthJapan<\/p>\n<p>GoNorth Japan merchandise is now available! Support the channel by buying a hoodie!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/go-north-japan-merch<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on:<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/quinlan\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/gonorthj<\/p>\n<p>#Fudai #Seawall #Tsunami<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How a visionary mayor saved his town from a massive tsunami Fudai is a small town on the northern coast of Iwa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2354548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395391],"tags":[3249,8827,773120,499008,773125,67,1217,68,1225,773123,361849,186291,773119,773121,773118,773124,499006,773122,4204,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-2354547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-3-11","9":"tag-8827","10":"tag-coastal-trail","11":"tag-fudai","12":"tag-great-east-japan-earthquake-and-tsunami","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-japan-breaking-news","15":"tag-japan-news","16":"tag-japan-today","17":"tag-japanese-trail-town","18":"tag-march-11","19":"tag-mct","20":"tag-michinoku","21":"tag-michinoku-coatal-trail","22":"tag-north-japan","23":"tag-sea-gate","24":"tag-seawall","25":"tag-trail-town","26":"tag-tsunami","27":"tag-233"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}