Wagakoto
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Part 10: Tsunami Fires (1) Risks/Raging Flames Approach the School Building
According to the Japan Association for Fire Science and Engineering, at least 15…
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Part 10: Tsunami Fires (2) Limitations / Lack of Water Prevents Fire Extinguishing
During the Great East Japan Earthquake, the fire rose from two areas in the cent…
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Part 10: Tsunami Fires (3-End) Fragility / Major Oil Spill, a Sea of Flames
During the Great East Japan Earthquake, Kesennuma Bay transformed into a sea of …
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Part 9: Preparations in the Workplace (1) Putting Out to Sea / A Wall of Water, Risking Lives to Tak
As the major tsunami from the Great East Japan Earthquake pressed closer, those …
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Part 9: Preparations in the Workplace (2) Companies / Group Evacuation Motivates Residents to Move
The decisions of corporations to evacuate saved not only the lives of their empl…
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Part 9: Preparations in the Workplace (3) Retailers / Serving Customers, Unaware of the Tsunami
After the main shock of the Great East Japan Earthquake subsided, convenience st…
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Part 9: Preparations in the Workplace (4-End) Contributing to the Community / Staff Guidance Saves R
As community members, what could companies do during a disaster? One company sa…
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Part 8: Teachings (1) Proactive Evacuation / Sight of Escape will Move Others
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake, ideas that encourage early evacuation…
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Part 8: Teachings (2) Tsunami Tendenko (to each his/her own)/Evacuation and Rescue, Haunting Indecis
The tsunami approaches. Save yourself by disregarding others or face mutual dest…
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Part 8: Teachings (3-End) Self-preservation and Cooperation / Neighbors Protect the Elderly
At Katsurashima Island of Shiogama City, which floats on the Matsushima Bay, one…
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So as to allow people around the world to know of and share in the lessons of the Great East Japan Disaster, Kahoku Shimpo is making public the English translation of its “Wagakoto” series in several installments. The translations were prepared by student volunteers from Boston University and the University of Michigan in cooperation with the staff of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard.