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    11 YEARS AFTER...MESSAGE FROM SEA: The reality that should never be forgotten/1年を経てもなお・・・・忘れて ならない震災の記憶、今、沖縄へ

    11 YEARS AFTER...MESSAGE FROM SEA: The reality that should never be forgotten

    Photo By Yoshie Makiyama | The marking on the side of the drifted pallet.... read more read more

    OKINAWA, JAPAN

    01.18.2023

    Story by Yoshie Makiyama 

    Marine Corps Installations Pacific

    Kinser Marines found a beat up pallet while they engaged in the clean-up effort on the beach behind Camp Kinser Elementary School during a volunteer activity, Sept. 30, 2022. The significance of this pallet comes from what is written on it.

    On it the words "Kesennuma Seafood Processing."

    Kesennuma is one of the port cities which was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami on March 11, 2011.

    Mika Miura of the Kesennuma City Great East Japan Earthquake Memorial Museum in Kesennuma, confirmed that the pallet belonged to the Kesennuma Seafood Processing Cooperative and that it was used before the tsunami.

    This pallet could have washed up on the shore of Okinawa after possibly drifting in the ocean for more than a decade.

    According to Miura, a member of the Kesennuma Seafood Processing Cooperative was surprised that the pallet was found on a distant shore 11 years after the disaster.

    "People's feelings and hearts never decay, and when they remember Kesennuma and contact us (like this), we feel a 'connection,'" said Miura.

     ボロボロのパレットに「気仙沼水産加」の文字。

     2022年9月30日、キャンプ・キンザー小学校裏の海岸で、毎月恒例のボランティア清掃をしていたキンザー所属の海兵隊員が見つけたパレットだ。

     気仙沼市は、2011年3月11日の東日本大震災と直後の大火災で大きな被害を受けた港町の一つ。  

     気仙沼市東日本大震災遺構・伝承館の三浦美香さんが、「大きな輪」の取材を受けて確認を取ったところ、震災前に使われていた気仙沼市水産加工業協同組合のものだと判明。

     このパレットは、震災後10年以上にわたって海を漂流した後、沖縄の海岸に打ち上げられた可能性がある。

     三浦さんによると、同組合の職員は、震災から11年過ぎてもなお、遠く離れた海岸で(当時のパレットが)発見される事実に驚いていたという。

     「人の気持ち、心は朽ちることはなく、気仙沼を思い出してくださり、(このように)連絡をいただくことで『繋がり』を感じます。」と三浦さんは話した。

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    Date Taken: 01.18.2023
    Date Posted: 01.30.2023 17:58
    Story ID: 437236
    Location: OKINAWA, JP

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