Wednesday, 2 March 2016

Japan still coming to terms with 3.11 (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, ANU, East Asia Forum)

A file picture dated 5 April 2011 shows Mayor of the Urashuku First Ward and an emergency volunteer firefighter Fumio Hiratsuka, 76, looking for his missing relatives at a makeshift mass grave for tsunami victims in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Photo: AAP).

It is the stillness that is most overwhelming. The rubble has been cleared away. The grass has grown back. But along much of the coastal strip devastated by the tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, a silence remains.

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