Japan Tsunami Videos

MIYAGI 1

2011-04-18T13:02:00.001+02:00

Sendai ; near the river Natori 仙台市名取川河口付近

Kesennuma 　　　気仙沼市

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ann27T6JTek

Natori 　名取市

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoGzvb2BxP4

Shiogama 　　　塩竈市
　　　　http://youtu.be/amg5S_bODzo

MIYAGI 2

2011-04-18T13:01:00.002+02:00

Minamisanriku 南三陸町

View from Sizukawa high school

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View from Sizukawa junior high school

MIYAGI 3

2011-04-18T13:00:00.004+02:00

Tagajou 多賀城市

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Journalist run from Tsunami wave.

He says Tsunami is approaching in 6 minutes. ( 0:30 )

Tsunami reaches at the end of the street. ( 1:50)

He hears somebody screams " Tsunami is coming !!!!" ( 2:17 )

then get off the car and manages to evacuate to a building near by.

While he was climbing up the stairs, Tsunami reached to the building.

Outside ( 5:12), people are left on the wrackage , he and other people ( luckily some of them were former rescue worker) start to rescue .

IWATE 1

2011-04-18T12:59:00.005+02:00

Rikuzentakada 陸前高田市

Filmed by a menber of the rescue team.

The rescue team start running (2:45) and warning people in the town.

" Tsunami has overflowed the dyke , evacuate to upland immediately !!!!!!!!!!! "

Tsunami wave is rapidly approaching ( 4:55).

" Hayaku , Hayaku, Hayaku !!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hayaku = Hurry up

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Noda-mura 　　　野田村

A fisherman's boat is hit by Tsunami.

He has nothing else to do but watch.

IWATE 2

2011-04-18T12:58:00.004+02:00

Kamaishi 釜石市

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Tsunami survivor Mrs.Kikuchi

She went back to her home to look for her son, but couldn't find him and left the house by car .

The moment her car was swept away was captured on video. (0:50)

People evacuated to the hill see her and scream " Run! Quick!'

Her son was also captured on video (4:20) , although the house he was standing was all ruined , he survived !

Hotel Houshoukan - Nehama beach

Hotel Hoshokan is located on a hill, and has been designated as Tsunami evacuation area through the ages.

People evacuated to a hill behind the hotel.
Okami (= the landlady of the hotel) in red circle, went down to warn her neighbors,

then Tsunami about to reach.

Okami screams " Run, Hurry up !!!!!!!!!! "

Everybody survived !

IWATE 3

2011-04-18T12:57:00.001+02:00

Miyako 　　　宮古市

Ōfunato 大船渡市

Ōfunato ( 0:00~) Miyako ( 2:18~) Kuji ( 4:10~) Hachinohe , AOMORI ( 5:00~)

AOMORI , CHIBA

2011-04-18T12:56:00.002+02:00

AOMORI ; Oirase 　　青森県　おいらせ町

CHIBA ; Asahi 旭市

Footage of inside a car when Tsunami hits .

FUKUSHIMA

2011-04-18T12:56:00.001+02:00

Minami souma 南相馬市

5 km off the coast of Soma city ,
Japan Coast Guard vessels ' Matsushima'

TOKYO , YOKOHAMA

2011-04-18T12:55:00.003+02:00

TOKYO Skyscraper in Shinjuku 東京、新宿の高層ビル

TOKYO (4:50 ) 　Trein (Yurikamome ) stoped operation.
When the passengers got off the trein, aftershock occurred.　

YOKOHAMA ( 6:40 ) Big crack on the ground.　

A few days after

2011-04-18T12:54:00.001+02:00

A girl - Her family is missing
She says everybody's gone and cries for her mother,

" Oka-san " (mum)

A girl - Her father is missing

She says there is no home to return, nothing to eat,

" I realized how happy my life was before "

Girl's mother says that she hopes her husband sees this video so he would know where they are.
http://youtu.be/PFepYjVbFnk

A man- His wife's body was found the previous day

He goes back to his house which is completely destroyed and manages to find photo albums.
He shows photographs of his wife.
She thought Tsunami was not so big and she was determined to stay at home.
He regrets that he didn't force her to evacuate with him.

Dog , Cat, Horse

2011-04-18T12:53:00.006+02:00

A dog cares for a injured dog

Sendai city ; Arahama

After they were rescued, the weaker dog was taken to the vet clinic, and the other one was taken to a shelter.

Tsunami- -surviving dog rescued after 3 weeks

The dog named Ban was found on the rubble floating on the sea , where 1.8 km off the coast of Kesennuma City.

Ban meets his (her) owner, very happy !

Cat named ' Non chan ' was found in a ruined house

Non chan's owner went back to her ruined house for the first time after Tsunami.

" Meow~ meow~ " Non chan is alive!!!

Horse and dogs meet their owner again！

Cow ? may be later ・・・.

Must-see !

2011-04-18T12:52:00.001+02:00

Three elderly people( 1man and 2 women) were rescued from the ruined building.
They were stuck on the third floor for 2 whole days (42hours).

Reporter:     Are you alright?
Old man:    I'm alright, I'm alright...
Reporter:     What a relief. how are you feeling now?

Old man: Well, I went through ChileanTsunami , so I'm alright,

Let's rebuild again!

(* Great Chilean earthquake in 1960 caused Tunami that hit Japan, and destroyed the same area where he lived .)

This old man inspired the respect of mIllions of Japanese people.

After everything he had been through he had no complaints at all, he just smiled and said

'' Let's rebuild again ''

He is a real Japanese man with a true samurai spiritt !

Satellite photo

2011-04-18T12:51:00.001+02:00

ABC News　

Satellite photos before and after Tsunami.
津波の前後の衛星写真。

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Map

2011-04-18T12:50:00.002+02:00

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