By SHOGO KOSHIDA/ Staff Photographer
March 11, 2021 at 07:00 JST
Feb. 20, 2021: A warehouse his father set up at the former site of Kazuto Oya’s family home in Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, after it was swept away by the 2011 tsunami. The structure reminds Oya of childhood days when his older brother was scolded by their father for breaking a window by swinging and throwing a baseball bat. (Shogo Koshida)
Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series retracing the lives of four families over the decade following the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, mainly through photos that depict a range of human emotions as bereaved family members and other survivors tried to comfort each other and rebuild their lives. [Read More]
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