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Author
Series
I survived volume 8
Language
English
Description
Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death, Ben Kudo saw the wave coming as he stood on a street in the tiny village of Shogahama; Ben, who didn't speak Japanese, understood one word--Tsunami!
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart, and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then, one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
194 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever measured in Japan occurred off the northeast coast. It triggered a tsunami with a wall of water 128 feet high. The tsunami damaged the nuclear power plant in Fukushima triggering the nightmare scenario-- a nuclear meltdown. For six days, employees at the plant worked to contain the meltdown and disaster workers scoured the surrounding flooded area for survivors. This book examines the science behind...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xxii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Trace the events surrounding Japan's 2011 earthquake and the subsequent tsunami flood and nuclear threat that further endangered the region, describing the heroism of survivors who risked their lives to protect others.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
March 11, 2011. A powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan; more than eighteen thousand people were crushed, burned to death, or drowned. Parry lived through the earthquake in Tokyo, and over six years of reporting he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all: Okawa Elementary School was decimated. Here he tells the story of how a nation faced...
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