Disaster Sites

/ Last updated : 2011 Eastern Japan Earthquake - Okawa Elementary

After 12 years, tsunami survivors are working to rebuild adjacent area of ruined school: Okawa Elementary in Miyagi Prefecture

Tetsuya Tadano is a survivor of the 2011 Tsunami Disaster at Okawa area of Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture. He was 11 years old then, and now he became President of non-profit “Team Okawa: the Future Network.” He recently visited Los Angeles. By Tetsuya Tadano ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture – March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami […]

/ Last updated : 2011 Eastern Japan Earthquake - Grateful Crane

2023: Los Angeles-based Grateful Crane Ensemble brings joy, laughter and friendship to Tohoku region of northeast Japan

The nonprofit theater company toured small cities in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate prefectures singing their favorite Japanese and English songs of hope and inspiration to people profoundly affected by the triple disasters on 3/11/11. Twelve years after the Great East Japan Earthquake the Grateful Crane didn’t forget and once again pulled out all the stops […]