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Who predicted the tsunami in japan?

Yasuo Tanaka

Yasuo Tanaka (田中 靖夫, Tanaka Yasuo, 1932–2016.) was a Japanese civil engineer and disaster prevention researcher who is credited with anticipating the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Tanaka was the chief researcher at the Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI) between 1988 and 2003.

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