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Parry, Richard Lloyd
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Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Tsunamis -- Japan -- History -- 21st century
Earthquake aftershocks -- Japan.
Earthquake damage -- Japan.
Earthquakes -- Japan.
Japan -- History -- Heisei period, 1989-
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Parry, Richard Lloyd
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Tsunamis -- Japan -- History -- 21st century
Earthquake aftershocks -- Japan.
Earthquake damage -- Japan.
Earthquakes -- Japan.
Japan -- History -- Heisei period, 1989-
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Ghosts of the tsunami : death and life in Japan's disaster zone / Richard Lloyd Parry
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Parry, Richard Lloyd
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Call #:
952
.0512
P265g
Subjects
Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011.
Tsunamis -- Japan -- History -- 21st century
Earthquake aftershocks -- Japan.
Earthquake damage -- Japan.
Earthquakes -- Japan.
Japan -- History -- Heisei period, 1989-
ISBN:
9780374253974 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Death and life in Japan's disaster zone
Edition:
First American Edition
Description:
295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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
Summary:
"On March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways. Richard Lloyd Parry, a foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own. What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? An intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. How a nation faced a catastrophe and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins"--Provided by publisher.
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