JAPAN | Monday, 7 January 2013 | Views [278] | View Larger Image
The view of Oshima island from its highest point at the top of Turtle Mountain (Kame-yama). At the time of the tsunami Murakami-san was visiting Kesennuma and for five days he took shelter in an abandoned house there before finally returning to find his house destroyed and grandma missing. Immediately after the disaster he and his fellow volunteer fire-fighters were active in helping with rescues and putting out the fires that were spreading from burning chemical plants in nearby Kesennuma.
