ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture On paper, a museum here themed on the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami seemed like a safe and easily achievable project, a serene place for reflection and a memorial to the tragedy.
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?
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Unlock the Real Japan: ten years after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, how has Japan changed?
Six new articles explore the recovery of the disaster area and Japan’s path to reaching zero emissions
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Produced in collaboration with Nikkei Asia and Time Out Tokyo, Unlock the Real Japan’s website has been updated with six brand new articles prior to the release of the magazine’s third issue on March 29.
The first three articles look into reconstruction efforts in areas that were badly hit by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, while the other three pieces focus on the country’s reduction of its CO2 emissions and Japan’s path to becoming a carbon-neutral society by 2050.
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Known locally as 3.11, the Great East Japan Earthquake was one of the most destructive natural disasters in the country’s history, with the death toll estimated at 16,000, although many bodies were never found.
The tsunami surge, more than 130-feet-high in some areas, tossed cars into third-storey windows and reduced houses and shops to something resembling a giant game of pick-up-sticks. Images of vehicles twisted into unrecognizable crumples of metal and rubber, and fishing boats listing high on dry land maintain a level of surrealism.