Roki Sasaki is Major League Baseball's hottest new star but he had to struggle through adversity to get there, losing his father and grandparents in Japan's deadly 2011 tsunami.

I PAY tribute to RTÉ 2 for broadcasting two episodes to mark the 20th anniversary of the the tsunami which devastated coastal ...

An Irish survivor of the 2004 south-east Asian tsunami has revealed how her father — who also escaped from the disaster — ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he ... with inhabitants of the coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka suffering the brunt of the devastation.

“I couldn’t hear another person, which made me think that maybe I was one of the only survivors ... Phi island in southern Thailand that was destroyed by the tsunami.

Relatives of victims and survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candle light ... Takuapa district of Phang Nga province, southern Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Wason ...

Luke Simon, who survived the devastated 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which killed his brother, has shared the haunting two words ...

There were similar memorial ceremonies in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing town in Thailand that was among those most devastated by the tsunami in the country, as well Chennai, India, and Pereliya ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean ... during the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Phang Nga province, Thailand, December 26, 2024. REUTERS/ Artorn Pookasook "I felt ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass ... slamming into coastlines of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and nine other countries.

After an interfaith ceremony, Italian survivor Francesca Ermini ... a Briton who lost her partner and his parents to the tsunami in Thailand, said the commemorations were a time to remember ...

Picture: Getty Images A tsunami hazard zone warning sign on Koh Phayam island in southern Thailand. Picture: AFP In Sri Lanka, where more than 35,000 people perished, survivors and relatives were ...