Located on the southern coast of Iwate Prefecture facing the Sanriku fishing grounds, Ofunato is a city of the fisheries that has since before times prospered with fishing for as one of its primary industries. While the coastal areas of the city were devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, thanks to support from both within Japan and around the world Ofunato City is now on its feet again and making progress to reconstruction. In future, we would like to overcome issues existing from before the disaster, aiming at a becoming an even stronger city of the fisheries.