Saturday, May 21, 2011

日本二ヶ月後。

"On March 11, the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. As of today, nearly 15,000 deaths have been confirmed, and more than 10,000 remain listed as missing. In some coastal communities, where the ground has sunk lower than the high tide mark, residents are still adjusting to twice-daily flooding. Many thousands still reside in temporary shelters because their homes were either destroyed or lie within the exclusion zone around the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. Now that tourism season has arrived, Japan -- especially Fukushima prefecture -- is finding itself hit by yet another disaster: visits to the country have dropped by 50 percent. Collected below are images from the tsunami-affected areas of Japan over the past several weeks."
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/05/japan-earthquake-two-months-later/100062/


Cherry blossoms cover a tree among tsunami wreckage in Natori city, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on April 18, 2011.
(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

The high-water mark from the March 11 tsunami is visible on a wall and clock in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.
(AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

A wooden cross stands amid the tsunami devastation at a place where a church used to stand in Kesennuma, Miyagi.
(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

Shoes are left in the dressing room of a kindergarten in the deserted town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture
(AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

A statue stands in a rice field devastated by the March 11 tsunami in Natori in Miyagi prefecture.
(Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

1 comment:

  1. Such emotional pictures.. esp the first one... sakura mitakattana..
    Such a big contrast between the kirei cherry blossom tree and the wreckage from the tsunami. It's like sending us a message that we can now rebuild. :( Nihon gambare.

    50 percent is like a huge drop... I might not be a tourist but I seriously want to go home and help. :(

    ラブラブnihon n you.

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