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TO GO WITH STORY "Japan-disaster-tsunami-stones" by Harumi OzawaThis picture taked on April 30, 2011 shows a stone warning of deadly tsunamis of centuries passing the sawtooth coastline of northeast Japan, at the village of Aneyoshi in Miyako city, Iwate prefecture. One of the monuments on a wooded hillside marks the limit of the tiny village of Aneyoshi, whose residents now credit it with saving them on March 11 when a giant ocean wave smashed into the fishing cove below them. "A house on high ground will lead to peace and happiness for posterity," reads the inscription on the stone, which was erected after a massive tsunami in 1933 killed unknown thousands along the rugged Pacific coast. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI. (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)

TO GO WITH STORY "Japan-disaster-tsunami-stones" by Harumi OzawaThis picture taked on April 30, 2011 shows a stone warning of deadly tsunamis of centuries passing the sawtooth coastline of northeast Japan, at the village of Aneyoshi in Miyako city, Iwate prefecture. One of the monuments on a wooded hillside marks the limit of the tiny village of Aneyoshi, whose residents now credit it with saving them on March 11 when a giant ocean wave smashed into the fishing cove below them. "A house on high ground will lead to peace and happiness for posterity," reads the inscription on the stone, which was erected after a massive tsunami in 1933 killed unknown thousands along the rugged Pacific coast. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI. (Photo credit should read KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)
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