THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
March 12, 2021 at 18:13 JST
Shojiro Kawasaki, 81, a resident of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, and his wife, Tomiko, 82, pray in front of a memorial monument in the town of Yamada in the same prefecture, on March 11. At the time of the disaster, their daughter Masako was working at a nursing home in Yamada. She was engulfed by the tsunami and swept away and remains missing. They said they could not let her go, even after 10 years, and that they still think their daughter might come back again. (Kazuhiro Nagashima)
On March 11, 2021, people across Japan fell silent at 2:46 p.m., in memory of the victims of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami who perished from the disasters of 10 years ago. [Read More]
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