Helping Tsunami Victims with a Joggling World Record
伊里前 伊里前は南三陸にある人口6000人の町です。南三陸は日本の東北地方にあります。 3月11日の津波から1年経っても、南三陸の人々はがれきが残る中で生活しています。家や店、レストランは津波で流され、今はそれらを支えていた土台しか残っていません。住民は士気を失い、人手が足りないために復興は進んでいません。 いつもと変わらない朝で始まったあの1日で、住民19170人の6%以上が亡くなるか行方不明になっています。いまでは世界であの地震の記事が書かれなくなりましたが、被災地は今も苦しんでいます。 私がこのギネス世界記録をいただいた目的は、世界の人々に被災地の現状を知ってもらい、支援を呼び掛けて南三陸の復興を手助けすることです。伊里前の人々には地震と津波に備える知識と技術がありました。しかし、あのあまりにも大きな地震と津波で被害を受けてしまったのです。 
These images were taken 15 months after the tsunami. An image cannot capture the true sense of how powerful the disaster was. Monstrous concrete structures that would otherwise be expected to last lifetimes are gone and locals have not yet cleaned up. |
Isatomae Isatomae (ee-sah-toh-mah-eh) is a community of about 6,000 people located in the town of Minamisanriku (met-nah-mee-san-ree-ku). Minamisanriku is in the Tōhoku region of Japan, which is in the north east of the main island. Over a year after the devastating Japanese tsunami on March 11, 2011, the survivors in Minamisanriku live among rubble that is almost unimaginable to first-world citizens The shops, houses, and restaurants that once thrived in peace have been literally swept away, leaving behind nothing but concrete stumps that reveal the floor plan of the buildings they once held. The lack of morale, motivation, and manpower in the town has prevented residents from being able to rebuild much of what was destroyed. Over 6% of the original 19,170 people have been confirmed dead or missing, a shocking number when considering that day started just like any other day. Though mainstream media around the world no longer writes many articles about the aftermath of the disaster, the problem is still very real and active in the afflicted regions. The goal of this world record is to raise awareness, support, and donations for the citizens of Minami-sanriku in order to restart their lives and move forward. These residents had been adjusted to an extraordinarily high quality of life, with ample engineering, knowledge, and expertise in combating earthquakes and tsunamis. But they became victims, not martyrs, of a probabilistic event. 
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