3/11: One year ago, today

[shadowspar]

Today marks exactly one year since the Great Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震).

Even though I am a long way away from Japan, both in terms of distance and in time, I still think of the country as my second home, and I still shed tears to think about what befell the wonderful people of my adopted country that day.

Comments

[laughingrat]

It's going to be decades before they recover, isn't it?

[clifstan]

You might perhaps appreciate this story - it's a tsunami-related story about things going *right*.
How collective memory saved lives during Japan's tsunami.

[shadowspar]

Thanks for that, it's a great story =) I'm sure there are a lot of other very positive stories to come out of what happened, but they kind of get lost in the overarching chaos & destruction.