Tangshan, though a vaster tragedy, has on the other hand been all but forgotten the Indian Ocean catastrophe is fast becoming little more than a distant blur of wreckage and flotsam. So we can thank Voltaire for allowing us to remember Lisbon’s great earthquake of 1755, and Jack London for making the 1906 destruction of San Francisco a permanent fixture in many readers’ imaginations. Those who are most able to afford-financially, spiritually, psychologically-to deal with them have the added advantage of having their sufferings memorialized in writing and imagery for decades, maybe centuries. Natural disasters that affect the developing world are all too swiftly forgotten. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people, mostly poor-not unlike in this respect the similar numbers who died during China’s Tangshan quake of 1976 or the immense Bengal storms of 1970. Other natural events have been far more lethal, however. Because the tsunami and the earthquake that caused it hit an advanced and prosperous industrialized country, and one that has a sophisticated actuarial perspective on such events, it is singled out as probably the costliest disaster in world history-an estimated $300 billion for the rebuilding. Nineteen thousand people died in the 2011 catastrophe, a third as many more were injured, and a swath of rockily indented coastline, with some three hundred fishing villages like Minamisanriku and a scattering of deepwater ports-and the now infamous Fukushima atomic power station-was wrecked. It is the shiny new municipal seawall, sloping up to forty feet high, which the town is building fast to ensure-and to hope-that those who live here now and in the future can be protected from the occasional seismic fury to which all Japan is prey and to which its people have become necessarily accustomed. But while that line of 2011 had been made of water pregnant with destructive power, this line of 2017 is made of enormous concrete hexagons, heavy with boulders and cemented tons of riprap. Once we were bouncing gently on the waves above his oyster beds he pointed back at the immense construction site that has temporarily replaced the town in which he grew up.ĭominating the scene, as though painted onto the western horizon between the mountains and the sea, was a thin white line again, a reflected memory of that devastating wave of six years before. So I went a mile or so out into the bay with a cheery local fisherman named Yoshiki Takahashi. The succession of gigantic torrents of Pacific Ocean water utterly wrecked the community’s heart, killed hundreds, and all but erased it from the map.īut this town, like many others nearby, is now being energetically rebuilt, and the best way to view its reconstruction is from the sea that destroyed it. The contorted coastal topography of this part of the Tohoku coast of northeastern Japan divided it into filigrees that licked lethally-as many as seven times, some said-into and out of the fjords, at the head of one of which stood the small town of Minamisanriku. But then the line steadily thickened and raced closer and closer to shore, until all too swiftly it was translated into the onrushing tsunami of March 11, 2011. Depending on the student's needs, we can offer 25, 80 or 110 minute lessons.A destroyed section of the Japanese coastal city of Kesennuma, in Miyagi Prefecture, the day after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, March 2011Īt first it was just a thin white line, seemingly painted far out onto the eastern horizon between the sky and the sea. You will not be able to take make-up classes after one week.
💭 If the teacher agrees in a special situation, please discuss with the teacher and take a make-up class within a week. If it is within 12 hours, you will have to take a make-up class at another time. 💭 If you cannot attend the class, please cancel at least 12 hours in advance. Variety of topics such as Japanese culture and travel knowledge Lessons with knowledge of Japanese culture, etc.ĭifference between written and spoken Japanese Learn about the expressions that are often used Looking forward to seeing you in my class!
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