Horrific stories are still coming to light. According to NHK news tonight, it sounds like almost all the children in Ishonomaki's Okawa primary school, a designated evacuation zone, were swept away by the tsunami. The way they reported it sounds like of the children not picked up by their parents, four students and one teacher survived... Utterly horrifying.... Sometimes I wonder whether it is better to avoid the news and remain blissfully ignorant... but doing so runs the risk of being sociopathic....
What hasn't started to be discussed yet, at least as far as I am aware, is the massive number of places in Japan that are built in areas that have historically been affected by tsunami.... I am not sure about Tokyo Bay, but the area around Kamakura has been swept away before. I have never seen a map of Japan that shows all areas that have been inundated by tsunami... production of one might create mass panic...
Apparently 74 of the 108 schoolchildren died and all but one of the 13 teachers...The location of the school is below.. it looks to at least a kilometre and a half from the sea, but is close to the river...
Apparently 74 of the 108 schoolchildren died and all but one of the 13 teachers...The location of the school is below.. it looks to at least a kilometre and a half from the sea, but is close to the river...
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