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Satomi Ono’s story about her town, Kesennuma which is a name you often hear about when the Japanese disaster is brought up. It was destroyed. This is sort of like journal entries and her tale isn’t the worst since she wasn’t there, but it’s well told and talk about her friends and family and what they went through. It’s well written and she’s just trying to get the word out. (Statemanjournal – Satomi Ono)
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If you can’t wait, watch from the 2 minute mark and see how Japan has been getting rocked in 2011. It’s actually scary and this is only graphics. The sheer quantity that’s taking place in just a single area seems unprecedented. This seems near unbelievable. [youtube]zNGqDRElI44[/youtube]
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[youtube]7_jXsb760o4[/youtube] Could it be washing up in Torfino? Some signs look like it, and the fella who’s been seeing these pieces speaks with great restraint and is open to any answer. The pieces of wood seem too clean and new, and containers from China don’t quite support the story, but who knows. It’ll wash up eventually.
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Chizuru Nakagawa is a volunteer who packed her things from Tokyo and went to a town she’d never heard of to help. Months and months later as the town is slowly picking up where it all went wrong, she’s still there and is part of the fabric of the rebuilding. It sounds typical in a way, since there are always human interest stories of a person doing something straight out of a hero book. This is just another one of them. (Stripes – Chizuru Nakagawa)
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Google Maps show you the disaster area. Literally scroll through areas. It’s odd but at the same time, this is as close as most will experience. View Larger Map
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