Three weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, I travelled up to Iwate Prefecture and spent seven days with Guardian correspondent Justin McCurry and photojournalist Rob Gilhooly in the affected areas. Justin and I produced a video for the Guardian focusing on Michihiro Kono, the head of a generations-old soy sauce and miso manufacturer. At the time we interviewed him, he was preparing to restart his business, despite the fact the entire operation had been wiped out. One member of staff had also died disaster. Kono had been made president of the company by his father on April 1 - the start of the new financial year, three weeks after the tsunami.
The video can be viewed on the Guardian website here.
Justin's profiles on six individual survivors, along with Rob's photos can be seen on the Guardian website here.
Also here are interactive profiles of the survivors six months after the diaster.
- Michael Condon
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