article_snippet.sent: 60-year-old man was at home on March 11, 2011, when a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck 231 miles northeast of Tokyo.
article_snippet.sent: A devastating tsunami followed, A devastating tsunami 30-foot waves ravaging cities and towns and damaging several nuclear reactors.
article_snippet.sent: By the time A devastating tsunami had run the course, nearly 16,000 people were dead.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after A devastating tsunami, Hiromitsu Shinkawa and Hiromitsu Shinkawa wife had gone to collect some belongings when A devastating tsunami slammed he and his wife hometown of Minamisoma.
article_snippet.sent: Hiromitsu Shinkawa home was one of the tens of thousands destroyed by the the huge, powerful tsunami wave.
article_snippet.sent: More than two days later, video showed Hiromitsu Shinkawa barely visible amid heaps of splintered wood, shattered homes and other debris floating more than nine miles (15 kilometers) out to sea.
highlights_snippet.sent: Other sole survivor stories include a Japanese man washed away by a tsunami .
  