A short extract of a post that features in my book about the Great East Japan Earthquake, The Teas That Bind:
When addressing the questions asked last week about rebuilding Japan’s destroyed communities, some villages are clearly ahead of the curve. As Japan Times writer Edan Corkill reports, the village of Yoshihama was spared the most terrible effects of the 11 March tsunami because of decisions made generations ago, after previous big disasters in 1896 and 1933, to relocate to higher ground. It is an incredible story of warnings from the past, left on stone markers built at the point where earlier giant waves reached.
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