The Sendai Airport looked like a total loss when we published a similar panoramic image back on March 20, 2011 (below). This new image shows that repair crews have been busy this past year. Flights are set to resume in mid-April. (MSN Japan)

by Robert Hood
We worked with a team from MSN Japan shortly after the tsunami last year. They produced some truely incredible panoramic images of the vast destruction that Japan suffered because of the quake and resulting tsunami. You can see their collected work below.

Also: See a unique before / after slider presentation in our "Then and now: The 2011 Japan tsunami" slideshow.

See another recent panorama from Japan, a year after the tsunami

• Then and now: Sightseeing ship atop house

Panoramic images produced shortly after the tsunami

• Inside the passenger terminal of the airport in Sendai, Japan
• Exterior of Sendai Airport
• A Statue of Liberty stands above tsunami wreckage
• Destruction in the interior of Ohkawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki City, Japan
• Sightseeing ship atop house in Otsuchi, Japan
• Grounded cargo ship in Kamaishi port, Japan
• Tokyo dims the lights because of nationwide electrical shortages
• Schools become makeshift relief centers in tsunami damaged Minamisanriku, Japan
• Destruction in Kesennuma, Japan
• Damage in Natori, Japan
• Damage in Kesennuma, Japan

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