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Nagaura Momone lives with her parents Koji and Ayako, grandfather Tatsumi and younger sister Michi on an island with a rich natural environment in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. After graduating from high school in the spring of 2014, she moves to the inland city of Tome on her own. However, she fails every university entrance exam. While trying to figure out what to do with her life, Momone begins to work as a trainee forest guide. One day, she reaches a turning point. A popular weather forecaster Asaoka Satoru from Tokyo comes to Tome City as a weather presenter. As Momone walks in the mountain with him, she is told that weather forecasting can read the future. His comment leaves a deep impression on Momone and she resolves to become a weather forecaster. She studies hard to obtain the qualifications to become one. However, the pass rate for the exam is only 5%. Momone has never been good in studying and seems disheartened. With the support of Suganami Kotaro, a
Art museum in Japan preserves memories, 3.11 losses through disaster-hit item exhibit
March 11, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Tiles from front entrances, bathrooms and other parts of homes destroyed in the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, are seen in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. (Mainichi/Ami Jinnai) SENDAI Household items covered in mud, fragments of tiles from homes; these are some of the items exhibited as records of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami at Rias Ark Museum of Art in the city of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture, where the disaster struck. Photographs of townscapes immediately after the waves came were taken by the museum curators, who also gathered the broken items on display. What were their thoughts as they continued to record amid extreme, conflicting emotions, and what were they trying to leave behind?