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First day in disaster region - oshima island
Entry by Joanna Met at Azumaya to hear lecturers view on disaster. Ms kotsumas shared her experience of disaster. She was separated from her elementary age son for five days as tsunami went through middle of island. Same with her son in kesennuma city. She could not get to him for a ...
First day in disaster region - oshima island
Entry by Joanna Met at Azumaya to hear lecturers view on disaster. Ms kotsumas shared her experience of disaster. She was separated from her elementary age son for five days as tsunami went through middle of island. Same with her son in kesennuma city. She could not get to him for a ...
Travelling again
... was surprised by the disaster site. It looked a lot better than I expected. The recovery efforts are progressing a lot faster than I thought. There was still a lot of evidence to prove the disaster did hit Kesennuma/Oshima but the people were still all smiles. Rather than typing each students entries, I have copied their journals so please check out the photos to read their ...
A golden past
... br> Hiraizumi is said to once have been the home of a beautiful capital, of which little remain. Most of the town is built around the ruins that are still there. Inside the Chuson-ji, the crown of capital still stands, the Konjikido Golden Hall, a hall entirely covered in gold and mother of pearl. It is considered one of the most elaborately decorated buildings and it is hard to argue against that. The hall really stands ...
Shaman Dancing in the Sun
I wrote previously about the haystacks; the origami arrangements around vertical poles that stood, so I described, like rows of shaman caught mid-dance. We have just had an opportunity to inspect some of these up close and it transpires that the machine in the fields is not a combine harvester but merely a reaping machine, and the straw stacks still have their ears of ...
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