Hard to believe it has been 10 YEARS TODAY since the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and fukushima disaster!

In looking up any news about the 10 year mark of this horrible Japanese disaster, I ran across this heartbreaking story of what happened to nearly all the children in one village near Tokyo . The title of the article is "The School beneath the wave: the unimaginable tragedy of Japan's tsunami". We got to watch from a safe distance on the news...these people couldn't get far enough away and give their live, eye-witness accounts in this article. Hard to believe it has been 10 years. I bet the people in this village still feel like it was yesterday ..."and all of their children were still dead" (last line of the article).


"From the hillside that overlooked Kamaya, where they had narrowly escaped to safety, Waichi Nagano and his wife, Hideko, could see the whole scene spread out below them, as the water swept in pulsing surges over the embankment and across the village and the fields. “It was a huge black mountain of water, which came on all at once and destroyed the houses,” he said. “It was like a solid thing. And there was this strange sound, difficult to describe. It wasn’t like the sound of the sea. It was more like the roaring of the earth, mixed with a kind of crumpling, groaning noise, which was the houses breaking up.”

There was another fainter noise. “It was the voices of children,” said Hideko. “They were crying out – ‘Help! Help!’” On the hill above, where he had half-climbed, half-floated to safety, Kazuo Takahashi heard them, too. “I heard children,” he said. “But the water was swirling round, there was the crunching sound of the wave and the rubble, and their voices became weaker and weaker.”

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