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A couple push their bicycles along a road in what used to be a suburb of Minamisanriku, nearly a year after the March 11 tsunami hit the Miyagi Prefecture town.
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some14some
that's the limit.
cactusJack
I think the bicycle is one of the greatest inventions of all time.
Serrano
Why are they walking alongside their bikes instead of riding them?
Rebuilding where an earthquake damaged buildings is one thing, but where a tsunami came in and wiped out virtually everything is quite another, I wouldn't live or work in such a place on a permanent basis.
choiwaruoyaji
The empty shell of the building behind them has a very sad story...
oginome
This was the building where the woman stood and used her loudspeaker to tell everyone to evacuate, but then didn't make it herself?
tokyokawasaki
Is that (wasn't that) the town office were only 2 people survived by clinging on to the antennas? The other people on the stairs trying to seek refuge on top of the building all got swept away :(
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That is indeed the building.
sunhawk
obaasans and ojiisans tend to only ride their bikes downhill.
almostshat
Give it up. Abandon these coastal towns. Re-locate, and re-populate the hundreds of other under-populated towns and villages throughout Japan (with targetted grants from the government/Red Cross etc). Their is nothing "sacred" about your "hometown" and nothing "noble" about persevering and staying on in the face of all logic and common sense. millions of people all over the world re-locate or emigrate and create a better * life than the one they had before.
http://danieldiaztecles.blogspot.com/
http://danieldiaztecles.blogspot.com/I suppose that if an area has been so affected by the disaster, and there have been many victims, going through the same site walk with the bicycle, is a behavior of respect. Bicycles must be used as environmentally friendly.
nath
This was the building where the woman stood and used her loudspeaker to tell everyone to evacuate, but then didn't make it herself?
A bizarre and unnecessary act of self-sacrifice, considering she was just saying the same thing over and over, and that message could have been pre-recorded and put on a loop. She could have done it herself in the 20 minutes they had to prepare, loop it and get to the roof.
Fadamor
Google Earth Street View has this location from last Summer: Go to 38°40'42.98" N 141°26'47.46" E , zoom in to street view (grab the yellow human-looking thing in the navigation tools and drop it on the intersection) and then swing around to look at 185° - 190°. I found myself touring the virtual streets. Even with all the greenery covering up much of the land, the devastation was still overpowering.