25 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Narrators of the Great East Japan Earthquake also prayed January 17 at 12:05
It is 25 years 17 days after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which killed 6,434 people. Narratives from Miyagi Prefecture, who shared their experiences with the Great East Japan Earthquake, visited Kobe and prayed to the victims.
On the 17th, 25 years after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, 10 people, including the storytellers of the Great East Japan Earthquake, participated in a memorial gathering at the East Amusement Park in Kobe City's Chuo-ku.
The narratives prayed with chrysanthemums at the flower ceremony hall, and then silenced at 5:46 am when the earthquake occurred.
One of the storytellers, Yuto Naganuma of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, 25, who lost his brother in the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake, said, "I prayed in consideration of the deceased and the bereaved. Because I was telling the process, I felt that we had to keep telling it, including the process. "
Mr. Nayuta Ganbe (20), who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake in Higashi Matsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture when he was a fifth grader in elementary school, said, “Looking at the expressions of everybody who was returning to those days, the importance of looking back on the milestones I felt it. "