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       Three years after the massive tsunami took over northeastern Japan, the government is building the biggest anti-tsunami barriers ever.The sea walls look as if they were built like  "the Great Wall of Japan,"it streches around 230 miles and cost nearly $8 billion.The wall is designed to protect places like the small port city of Kesennuma in Miyagi perfectly. With its huge hills, white fishing boats and seafood market, Kesennuma has the pleasant nautical feel of Seattle. The original restaurant washed away in the March 11, 2011, tsunami, along with the rest of Kesennuma's historic waterfront.The city's rebuilding has been slowed down by controversy over the sea wall, to be built along the inner harbor. Residents and business owners say the originally planned nearly 17-foot-high sea wall would turn this quaint seaport into a prison.