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Aftermath, 津波 つなみ Tsunami 地震 じしん Jishin Earthquake
How can we forget these pictures?! We cannot and we must not. Yet amidst all that despair and devastation there are now signs of hope and survival against all odds, signs of struggle to come up again. It has been an extremely difficult time for the Japanese of North Eastern Japan, yet changes are coming – slowly, it would appear, but they are coming. We found some signs of hope:
But they are laughing and enjoying each other’s company again.
Hope 希望 きぼう kibō
Here is an amazing link to a most informative site:
Kobe Earthquake 阪神地震 はんしんじしん
Kanto Earthquake 関東地震 かんとうじしん
Mt Aso 阿蘇山 あそさん
Where there is a volcano there is a hot spa [onsen]
Earthquakes 地震 じしん
地震
11 March 2011 Sendai Earthquake
a horror unfolding
20000 lives lost and still counting…
first there is shock and horror…
then there is just desolation…
Sendai Airport’s runways
and then there is almost endless sorrow…
before
after
and more and more destruction,
unbelievable destruction
As far away as Tokyo and Yokohama the quake
is felt and damage is recorded
the subsequent drama that unfolded:
the Fukushima nuclear power plants’ disaster
The drama continues still now…
Volcano 火山 かざん
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
31st January 2011 Eruption Mt Shinmoedake:
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano
kazan 火山 かざん volcano