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The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
The contrast couldn’t be greater. One moment I am in the Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum in Rikuzentakada, Japan, watching videos of The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in which towering waves wipe out town after town. I couldn’t help but feeling that the water was a living beast, malevolent and determined as it ripped through buildings, surged up streets, and wreaked unimaginable havoc, death, and destruction. The next moment, I am a five-minute walk from the Museum standing on a 41-foot-high, concrete seawall, watching six-inch waves wash onshore, their susurrating sound calming and…
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