Ghosts of the Tsunami : : Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

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The school beneath the wave -- Maps -- Having gone, I will come -- Where are the children? -- Jigoku -- Area of search -- Abundant nature -- The mud -- The old and the young -- Explanations -- Ghosts -- What it's all about? -- What happened at Okawa -- Last hour of the old world -- Inside the tsunami -- The river of three crossings -- The invisible monster -- In the web -- What use is the truth? -- The tsunami is not water -- Predestination -- The rough, steep path -- There may be gaps in memory -- Gone altogether beyond -- Consolation of the spirits -- Save don't fall to sea.
On March 11, 2011, a 120-foot-high tsunami smashed into the northeast coast of Japan, leaving more than eighteen thousand people dead. It was Japan's single greatest loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. Ghosts of the Tsunami is the intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the perspectives of those who lived through it. -- Adapted from book jacket.
March 11, 2011. A powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan; more than eighteen thousand people were crushed, burned to death, or drowned. Parry lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and over six years of reporting he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all: Okawa Elementary School was decimated. Here he tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.

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Good, but not sure if I'd recommend submitted by lexinylander on June 23, 2020, 10:31am I'm not sure if I'd...recommend this book to anyone? Because it was one of the most deeply depressing things I've ever read in my entire life and if I read it for too long in one go I'd start to feel almost sick to my stomach. But it was well written and informative and handled a very serious and heart-wrenching topic in a way that gave it both the sincerity and respect it deserved without being too heavy handed. It was just a lot any way you look at it. I read it for Read Harder 2020 challenge and while it was topical date-wise, emotionally evocative, and informative, I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it being a white guy living in Japan at the time that this happened writing about it. He kind of even mentions it at one point where he's like yeah why am I here asking these questions? What am I doing? And never...quite answers them.

Parts of this are probably going to haunt me for the rest of my life so.