The Mabori Kaigan Flood Of 1996

South of Yokosuka City harbor complex, is located the Mabori Kaigan suburb, which is built on reclaimed land, facing Tokyo Bay.  Many U.S. Navy people rent houses and apartments in the Mabori area.

Mabori Kaigan has a real nice and long seaside pedestrian road (built in 2012), which is a great place to do some jogging or walking.

This is what it looks like today:

The pedestrian roads were built as part of an improved seawall, in response to a disaster which occurred in 1996, when a typhoon drove high-tide waters over the old sea-wall and caused extensive flooding in Mabori Kaigan.

Here is what the 1996 typhoon did...

  

Here is a Japanese Civil Engineering explanation about the improved Mabori seawall project.