By SHINJIRO OMIYA/ Staff Writer
March 11, 2021 at 08:00 JST
Ai Karino wrote this letter for her mother, Akemi, to express gratitude as she often did so as a young girl. Part of the letter reads, “Thank you, Mom, for going to work and doing housework all the time. Thank you also for looking after me when I had a fever.” (Provided by Akemi Karino)
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Five days after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Akemi Karino came to look for her missing daughter at her destroyed elementary school. [Read More]
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