English: Source: Anawat Suppasri, Nobuo Shuto, Fumihiko Imamura, Shunichi Koshimura, Erick Mas, Ahmet Cevdet Yalciner: "Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami: Performance of Tsunami Countermeasures, Coastal Buildings, and Tsunami Evacuation in Japan", Pure and Applied Geophysics, 170, 6-8, (2013), pp. 993–1018, DOI:10.1007/s00024-012-0511-7, online published on 7 July 2012, here: p. 1002, Figure 12 ("Control forest in Rikuzen-Takata city. Approximately 70,000 pine trees were completely swept away"), Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). URL of the image file: https://media.springernature.com/original/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs00024-012-0511-7/MediaObjects/24_2012_511_Fig12_HTML.jpg.

Caption as given in the above cited source: "Figure 12 - Control forest in Rikuzen-Takata city. Approximately 70,000 pine trees were completely swept away"

Context as given in the above cited source: "An example of a great loss of control forests is in Rikuzentakata city. The city is known for having a 2 km stretch of shoreline lined with ~70,000 pine trees (Fig. 12, left). The 2011 tsunami, which was nearly 20 m high, swept away the entire forest; only one 10 m high, 200-year-old tree remains (Fig. 12, right). This surviving tree became a very important symbol of the reconstruction for people in the city. The forest not only could not protect the town but also increased the impact of the tsunami because of floating debris."