100 يوم على أولمبياد طوكيو: عملية تحوّل قبل أولمبياد 1964
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How The First Tokyo Olympics Changed The Face Of Japan
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The schools that were saved were built on higher ground. When the 39-metre-high wave came, the students were spared. Many of their parents and siblings were not.
Orphaned in a wall of debris that swept Japanâs coast on March 11, 2011, the scores of students who lost their family members that day are now young adults rebuilding both their lives and their communities.
Waves from the March 11, 2011 tsunami hit residences in Natori, in Japanâs Miyagi prefecture.
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âIt was a normal winterâs day. Everybody was doing what they normally did until the clock hit 2.46pm,â said Takuya Tokairin, a student living near Sendai, the capital of Japanâs Miyagi prefecture.
Baseball fans wait patiently in line to get the one last noodle from Suimeitei, a beloved concession stand at Meiji Jingu Stadium in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. The stand opened after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and closed for good on Dec. 6. (Yoshie Watanabe)
People from near and far, from hungry students to baseball stars, lined up at Meiji Jingu Stadium in central Tokyo for their last taste of a savory dish served by a legend at the ballpark.
Suimeitei, a small concession stand tucked in the hallway behind home plate on the first-base side of the stadium, offered its last bowl of noodles on Dec. 6.