In this excerpt from Sally Hayden’s book, This Is Also a Love Story: A Reporter’s Search for Goodness in a Cruel World, Yuji Akagawa, “a grandfather in his seventies,” recalls the aftermath of the 9.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. The seismic event was so powerful that it shook the earth for six minutes. The subsequent tsunami hit less than an hour later, destroying everything in its path, erasing roads and landmarks,…
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