In this photo from June 2011, three months after the tsunami, a girl plays with debris washed up from the March 11 tsunami at a beach in Matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture.  The photo can be used in class to both show some of the destruction but also the rebirth of the region.  Matsushima itself suffered damage on March 11.  However, as a series of small islands are located immediately offshore, it was not hit as hard by the tsunami as many other coastal communities.