4th Oct. 2011

I arrived here yesterday with a mixed nurve. One of my plans this time in Japan had been a visit to Kesennuma and Rikuzen Takata, two of the most affected cities by the March 11 Tsunami along the North-eastern Pacific coast. There is the famous fishing harbour with massive sea food industry in Kesennuma, and all those normal life amenities such as houses, schools, hospitals, shops and all that in Rikuzen Takata, both of which have been said to be totally destroied.

I'm so stunned seeing the real time situation of both cities that I cannot say much today, but I feel getting a hint of a big thing.
We, human, have began to suffer in this way because of something we are facing in every place even in Kuala Lumpur.

Maybe, it is time to think over, review our ways, live again.
Maybe, we are overdeveloping.

5th Oct. 2011

I've been thinking.
Rikuzen Takata I visited yesterday after Kesennuma was even worse for its flatness and vastness that allowed the tsunami's spread.
The entire city had practically disappeared.




I looked at the debris which had been fairy cleared by now after 7 months. They were all what we see around us in our lives.

Concrete, floor material, ceiling material, plastic goods, tire, car body, parts of chair, table, furniture, window, wall, computer... all of which had been produced in recent age, late 20th century, and 21st century.
In other wards, we are living in debris.
A lot of thinking and I cannot conclude.
A lot of lives were gone as well.





This picture is the remain of a secondary school. I asked the security officer near by to make sure that the pupils had safely evacuated.
No, he said. About half had died, believing no tsunami would come.

I'm saying, we might be overdeveloping.
Over making. Over manufacturing. Over creating. Over working because we have to survive with the current life standard. Therefore over producing. Over trusting the technology. No disaster would come. Over estimating. Under estimating the nature, the fate, maybe god.
...I don't know.
I really do not know.