The town of Yamamoto, known for its dish of salmon roe and salmon on a bowl of rice (‘harokomeshi’)

Emergency rations, including food and other supplies, brought into the Jonet Headquarters prior to our investigation tour.

 

 

Rubble is being removed using the ‘human relay’ system. Care is given to setting apart shards of glass and other small bits of debris.

 

The collected fragments of glass and other small bits of rubble.

The few weathered pine trees remaining show evidence of salt-air damage.

 Over there lies Fukushima Prefecture and a thermal power station.

A scene of devastation by the sea-shore.

Destruction by the mountainside.

Yamamoto town’s ‘Nakahama Primary School’ was well known for its modern design.

The ornamentation on the school wall is reminiscent of decorations on the wall of Oslo’s (Norway) municipal office and of Russian decorations.  

The decrepit crane conceals the remains of the seaside lookout, which the warlord Date Masamune had built to watch out for foreign ships approaching.

  This year’s ‘harakomeshi’, ‘salmon roe and salmon on a bed of rice’.