Japan: After the Wave
Msnbc.com travels to Japan to chronicle the country's struggle to recover from the devastating tsunami disaster of March 11, 2011. For more, visit www.afterthewave.msnbc.com and www.facebook.com/worldblog.
I want to congratulate you and your team on a great job done! I've been following your posts from Guatemala and everything you posted has taught me that even if you don´t have anything going right, there's still hope. And that hope is what keeps us going and help us achieve our goals. My heart goes out to the people in Japan, I'll try to help in some form.
Ganbaru Japan!- "Hi everyone, it's Miranda. I just woke up after the 14-hour flight home and I wanted to post this. I was impressed with Mr Satou's dedication to his employees - I'm sure he is just one of many trying to do the same thing, but I wanted to highlight his endeavor." - best, Miranda Leitsinger msnbc.com
"We're open" | Facebook
We were driving on the former main road along Minamisanriku's seafront, seeing piles of debris, one after another. There seemed to be no life in the area until we came across a gas station being run out of a trailer, with a red flag fluttering in the wind, reading: "We're open."- Miranda Leitsinger with gas station owner Toshiaki Satou. (2011 Miranda Leitsinger / msnbc.com)
- “We want to do fishing again, we want to go to the sea again.” For Jim and Miranda's final post from Japan, they spoke with fishermen undeterred by the blow to their livelihood.
World Blog - Tsunami town's fishermen vow to 'bring joy back'Fishermen tend to be an optimistic lot, always hopeful that the next cast or haul of the net will yield a big payoff.
“Every day is tears” | FacebookKeishi Saito stands amid the foundations of his home in Minamisanriku, a shower head lies at his feet. This is the second home that the 70-year-old construction worker has lost. In 1960, a tsunami triggered by a. 9.5 quake off the coast of Chile - the largest recorded one in the world - struck this fishing community 22 hrs later.One of our Japanese readers translated Kyle Drubek's post, "Every day is tears," in Japanese. You can follow his tweets at http://twitter.com/#!/dreamjoe
2011/06/16: "Every day is tears" - ジョー爺 東日本大震災
by World Blog on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 3:02pm Keishi Saito stands amid the foundations of his home in Minamisanriku, a shower head lies at his feet. This is the second home that the 70-year-old construction worker has lost. In 1960, a tsunami triggered by a.- Jim shows us how fast cleanup crews are moving, and how much more there is to do.
World Blog - Town's dilemma: Mountains of tsunami debris, no place to put itBy Miranda Leitsinger, Senior Writer and Editor, msnbc.com Before officials in Minamisanriku, Japan, can begin rebuilding from the March 11 tsunami, they must first dispose of what remains of their coastal town: an estimated 650,000 to 700,000 tons of wreckage that they have nowhere to put.- "It will take an estimated 65,000 of these ten-ton trucks to remove all of the debris here in Minamisanriku." - Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com
"Driving in the flooded area down by the sea. Kyle decided to reverse since we don't know how deep the water is." - Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com
"The city is still destroyed and I have worries, but now I have a baby. My will is strong. I am quite positive.” - new mother Megumi Takahashi
World Blog - Post-tsunami parenting no task for the faint of heartBy Miranda Leitsinger, Senior Writer and Editor, msnbc.com "I want him to grow strong, become a strong person who can survive no matter what happens, even in this disaster." The hopes of Koya Takahashi for his son, Nagato, are understandable given all that the child has endured in his first few tumultuous months of life.- "We have to reconstruct the town for the people who died, as well, not just for us, but for the people who died." - Kiyotake Miura, head of Minamisanriku's disaster division
World Blog - To honor the dead -- and living -- tsunami town will rebuildBy Miranda Leitsinger, Senior Writer and Editor, msnbc.com The fishing community of Minamisanriku was among Japan's hardest hit towns when the earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast on March 11. And more than three months after the disaster, city officials are still focused on clearing the mountain of debris left behind when the waves retreated.
