Book Subject Tag: Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
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March was made of yarn : reflections on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown
On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, triggering a 50-foot tsunami that crushed everything in its path—highways, airports, villages, trains, and buses—leaving death and destruction behind, and causing a major radiation leak from five nuclear plants. Here eighteen writers give us their trenchant observations and emotional responses to…