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A CIRENCESTER woman who thanks the lovely residents for all their support since she moved from Japan has released a book to mark the ten year anniversary of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Caroline Pover, who now runs Auntie Caroline’s Pickled Onions & Chutneys from her home in Cirencester, lived in Tokyo at the time of the disaster. Ten years ago yesterday, one of the biggest earthquakes in history occurred off the northeast coast of Japan, triggering a deadly tsunami that destroyed much of the Tohoku coastline. Caroline’s book, One Month in Tohoku, tells a moving tale of the very human impact of this natural disaster.
Almost 500,000 people were made homeless and livelihoods were ruined in an instant. Survivors were traumatised.
The world watched on in horror and then, as so often happens, it moved on. But not Caroline.
A teacher and author from Devon who had lived in Tokyo for 15 years, she had been on holiday on the little island of Saipan when the earthquake and tsunami hit.
Along with locals, she literally ran for the hills. A passing police car took her to a hilltop evacuation site where she watched, and waited, for six terrifying hours.
“I didn’t know how high we were or where we were and I was on my own,” she recalls. “There was a constant swishing sound. It was the trees but it made me jump.”
Mar 11, 2021
A school bell rings and excited giggles and the patter of rubber-soled shoes echo down the corridor as Shinichiro Hiratsuka, principal of Midoridai Junior High School in the city of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, sits in his office picking over memories of the past decade.
They start on March 11, 2011, when he was stranded at his then-workplace in nearby Ishinomaki, unable to contact his wife, Naomi, or return to his home, normally a 20-minute drive away, due to the havoc caused by the earthquake and tsunami that struck earlier in the afternoon.
Four days would pass before he learned that the eldest of their three children, 12-year-old Koharu, was missing, and another five months until they found her. She was one of 74 pupils at Okawa Elementary School who perished during the 3/11 disasters.
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