It was a month ago today when the Earth's crust ruptured under North West Pacific off the North East Coast of Japan over an area of 450km North-to-South by 240km East-to-West. Topography of the sea floor buckled and deformed in such an extend that at places lifting of 24m has been reported. This extremely violent geological event generated waves of large tsumani, over 30m at places, that hit the North East coast of Japan mainland, destroyed whatever were in their ways. The hardest hit was the scenic coastal area known as the Sanriku Coasts.
When I was ten or eleven, our family had a summer trip to the city of Sendai. We enjoyed several scenic harbour cruise trips near the Port of Sendai-Shiogama and amazed at the beauty of the southern end of Sanriku Coasts around Oshika Peninsula and Matsushima Islands. More recently in 2006 I accompanied my parents on a short trip to the Sanriku Coasts and visited the cities of Miyako and Kamaishi. Those were wonderful trips and I developed a special fondness of those beautiful, quant sceneries of Sanriku Coasts, the little special paradises.
The paradises are no more. No more other than in our memories and photographs.
I would like to share some of my memories of our trip in 2006, as a tribute to the lost beauty of the Sanriku Coasts and the people who lost their lives, families, possessions and hometowns in the tragedy. …
