what has tsunami left in northern part of japan

its been about 9months since the quakes and tsunamis hit in northern part of japan, and i still remember clearly the grotesque way of tsunami's eroding cities. it looked like mercury flowing or amoebas propagating. cars and even houses were swept away as if they were duck toys sweeping in the rivers. cities are the biggest creature made by humankind, but they didnt have any other choices but to be invaded, and people had no chance but to runaway or to surrender. thousands of precious lives were deprived and millions of people got grief stricken.

regardless of the amount of loss, it seems people there have been struggling to overcome the trial. since the catastrophe, disaster affected people have been working for the recovery of their cities and lifestyles together with various stakes. a tremendous number of people have been thinking what they can do and many actually have been participating in volunteer work. the numbers of companies and organizations have supported for the recovery by what they are good at. and millions of millions of financial supports were donated from all over the world even from our favorite neighbor of the great nation of kim jong-il. due to the supports, cities with no tsunami erosion has regained their ordinary lifestyle.

(in the city of ishinomaki)

(in front of the iwaki station at night)

however, as the government has been busy dealing with political games, the recovery of seriously wounded areas has been progressed at a snails pace. although it is obvious that it cannot allow to rebuild the same cities on the same ground and it hasnt reached to any conclusion what to do for the area, it is really irritating to see nothing has done yet.

it appears that most of rubble have been cleaned up already, but nothing else is happening yet. most of the affected areas had been shrinking even before the catastrophe hit, and this fact has made the restoration more difficult. it is meaningless to make cities recover by bouncing back to where they were before the tsunami, as many of them have lost their charms and attractions already. it is also pointless to make them bring back to the state that they were still growing, as the industrial structure has changed dramatically in a past few decades. i have still no clue what these areas should become like other than making them become super resilient and creative and making the former residents become happy. i hope something will bring hope to those who are in the deepest despair there as soon as possible. in order to do that, i should become more creative and productive so that i might be able to contribute at least a bit.