Three weeks after the earthquake I went back up to the tsunami affected areas, this time for seven days with the Guardian's Justin McCurry and photojournalist Rob Gilhooly. Justin and I did videos for The Guardian and Global Post. For Global Post we drove to Ofunato in Iwate prefecture where the local fishing industry had been all but completely wiped out by the tsunami. There we spoke to Kenichiro Yagi, a local fish trader who had commandeered a disused building, one of the few structures left standing in that area, and was determined to get the local industry back on its feet. We also interviewed Yoshiyuki Kumagai, a local fisherman so traumatized by the tsunami, he refused to go near the sea. He also was resolved to fish again but it would take some time for this to happen.
You can check out the video here
- Michael Condon
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