It has been 9 years and 11 months since the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred in 11 days.
In Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture, a man who lost four family members including his wife and son in the tsunami quietly joined hands in front of the Buddhist altar and said, "It was quick."
Yoshio Takahashi (78) of Natori City was washed away by the tsunami in his home in the Yuriage district of Natori City, and his mother Masa (93 at the time), his sister Yoshiko (71 at the time), and his wife Kyoko lived together. (62 at the time) and Yutaka (32 at the time), the second son, died.
Every day, twice in the morning and at night, I handed incense sticks to the Buddhist altar at my reconstructed home in Natori City and chanted sutras, so I joined hands quietly as usual on the 11th of the anniversary of the death of the moon. ..
It was said that there was a time when he drank a lot of alcohol because of the sadness of losing four people, but one day a few months after the earthquake, he encountered the words, "The survivors must use that experience as a new force to live." I wrote it in.
Since then, he has changed his life by looking back at his notebooks, and has been devoting himself to the reconstruction of the region, such as serving as the chairman of the autonomy for more than seven years in temporary housing.
Mr. Takahashi said, "It's been 10 years soon, but I feel that it was so quick. I didn't expect such a big tsunami to come. Sometimes I just need to save my life. I want to tell you that I'll run away. "