Yerkel refused to apologise to the protester immediately after the incident, arguing that he had been insulted and provoked into attacking the man, who is said to be a miner from the stricken town.
Survivors told harrowing tales of the moment the tsunami, up to 10 metres (33 feet) high, struck towns and resorts, sucking people into the sea, surging through buildings, sweeping cars from roads and smashing a train off its rails.
The disaster brought sudden attention to Onagawa, and to other stricken towns and cities along the edge of Miyagi Prefecture, in Japan's relatively poor Tohoku region — quiet fishing communities made famous by their near-erasure.
As she concluded in her Guardian column this week: If Bradford has a message, it's that Labour needs to get angrier: stricken towns devastated by unemployment and hopelessness need Labour and Labour needs them.
At least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.
After the strike "the town will be flooded with new material," she said.
Two more suicide bombers then struck the town, killing 35.
The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado had struck the town.
Then on Monday, the Shabab struck a town in central Somalia, Dhusamareb, withdrawing after inflicting casualties.
Some weeks, more than a hundred barrel bombs struck the town.
