Sendai

Lakers forward Rui Hachimura — who was born in Toyama, Japan, and attended high school in Sendai — also made it a point to connect with Sasaki before the game.

Within 40 minutes, the first tsunamis were coming ashore, crashing over sea walls and sweeping away towns and villages for hundreds of kilometres along Japan's north-east coast, all carried on live TV by a news helicopter hovering over the city of Sendai.

The fab will be located at an industrial park that has abundant land, water and power neighbouring the major regional city of Sendai, the companies said.

"Much effort over the past decade has been focused on generating PET radiotracers to visualize tau lesions in vivo," said Nobuyuki Okamura, MD, PhD, professor of Division of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine at Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University in Sendai, Japan.

Above, violent flood waters in the Sendai River.