Image: Illustration by Mallory Rentsch / Source Images: Courtesy of Asian Access / WikiMedia Commons
Japanese Christians in Tohoku and other areas affected by the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima.
On February 13, almost 10 years to the date after the infamous March 11 triple disaster that struck northeast Japan, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the same region.
Like a strobe light, memories and emotions that had been dimming for a decade returned. However, the aftershock was not just a reminder of the devastation and 20,000 deaths from 2011’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake in the Tohoku region and resulting 45-foot tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima. It also prompted the Japanese church to call to mind all that God has done since.