Synopsis
Six months on from one of the world's most devastating tsunamis, Panorama's Paul Kenyon returns to Japan to hear remarkable tales of survival amid the epic destruction.
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: Tsunami: The Survivors' Stories
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2011
- Geography | Plate Tectonics | Earth structure and plate movement | Tsunamis
Licence: ERA Licence required
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