9 years and 5 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake Visiting a grave at a temple where victims sleep Iwate Yamadacho August 11th 18:34
It has been 9 years and 5 months in 11 days since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Local people visited the temple in Yamada Town, Iwate Prefecture, which killed more than 830 people in the tsunami from the morning.
In the center of Yamada-cho, where more than 830 people were killed in the earthquake, there are 259 tombs out of them in the "Ryoji-ji" temple. Locals are visiting from.
Ryoko Furukawa (81) visited the grave of her husband, Shozo (75 at the time) who was killed in the tsunami while working at a local facility for the elderly.
And he said, "Please sleep peacefully. Please keep watching us."
Mr. Furukawa says that Obon visits the grave every year with five grandchildren living inside and outside the prefecture, but due to the effect of the new coronavirus, Kotobuki visited the grave alone.
Mr. Furukawa said, "I'm lonely that I can't visit with my grandson, and I'm sorry for my husband. I'm a kind person, so I think I'll be happy to visit alone," he said.