At an elementary school in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, a woman from Iwate Prefecture, who was affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, spoke about her experiences at the time and emphasized the importance of discussing evacuation destinations with her family on a daily basis.
The lecture was held at Hidaka Elementary School in Imabari City, with the aim of raising awareness of disaster prevention against the Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake.
Yukiko Kikuchi, who experienced the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and continues to work as a storyteller in Otsuchi Town, Iwate Prefecture, was invited as a lecturer.
Mr. Kikuchi showed a photo of Otsuchi Town, where 1,286 people were killed, at the time of the disaster, and said, "I felt the tremor so strong that I thought the ground would crack. I talked about my feelings at the time.
After introducing the Sanriku region's teaching of ``tsunami tendenko,'' in which each person evacuates to higher ground when an earthquake occurs, he said, ``It is important to decide where to evacuate with your family, and to immediately evacuate to higher ground after an earthquake. '' he complained.
A 5th grade girl said, "I felt scared when I thought about my family dying in an earthquake or tsunami. I want to decide together with my family what to bring and what to do when evacuating."
Mr. Kikuchi, the lecturer, said, "It's been a long time since the earthquake, and I feel that things are starting to fade even in the affected areas. I want the people of Ehime to prepare for how they should evacuate." rice field.