Pictures from Hitomi

Hitomi e-mailed me some of the pictures of her house and their seafood processing plant (Hitomi's family runs a  seafood processing business and owns a couple of processing plants which both were destroyed by the tsunami)
My other friend told me that the search for missing people (cleaning up the debries) for Hitomi's residential area (Watanoha) just started last week.  
 友達のヒトミが被害にあったご自宅とご家族が経営している会社の工場の写真を送ってくれました。
家も工場も被害が大きく、復興の遅れている石巻市渡波地区にあります。
別の友達からの情報によると、湊地区や渡波地区の捜索は先週からやっと始まったとのことです。

3月13日撮影ー山三布施商店　加工工場

Fuse Shoten Seafood Processing Plant (3/13/2011)

3月13日撮影ー山三布施商店　加工工場

Fuse Shoten Seafood Processing Plant (3/13/2011)

3月13日撮影ー山三布施商店　加工工場

Fuse Shoten Seafood Processing Plant (3/13/2011)

3月23日撮影ー山三布施商店　加工工場

Fuse Shoten Seafood Processing Plant (3/23/2011)

3月23日撮影ー山三布施商店　第2加工工場件祖母自宅

Fuse Shoten Seafood Processing Plant-Bldg.#2/Grandmother's house (3/23/2011)

3月23日撮影ー山三布施商店　第2加工工場件祖母自宅

Fuse Shoten Seafood Processing Plant-Bldg.#2/Grandmother's house (3/23/2011)

３月12日ヒトミの自宅から撮影

Picture taken from Hitomi's house (3/12/2011)

3月19日ヒトミの自宅

Hitomi's House 3/19/2011

3月23日撮影 ヒトミの自宅一階

Htomi's House 1st Floor (03/23/2011)

3月23日撮影 ヒトミの自宅一階

Htomi's House 1st Floor (03/23/2011)

2 months After the tsunami....

It's been 2 months since the tsunami devastated my hometown.
The picture above was taken by my friend, Eri, last week in Ishinomaki.
As you can see, it's still a clean up stage and people are still looking for their missing families.
You can see MORE PICTURES FROM ISHINOMAKI HERE.
Eri also sent me pictures she took when she found her racing car in Natori, Miyagi Japan.

Hitomi and Her Family Business Update

I was finally able to talk to Hitomi this past Sunday.
It's been difficult to talk on the phone since there is a time difference between here and Japan. Things have been really hard for her since 3/11/11.
I wish I could be there just to listen to her and cheer her up.

I told her about our project and she was so thankful for all the support she's receiving.
Hitomi's house is in Watanoha and they finally have water and electricity, but no gas yet.
Her father is doing everything he can to re-open their seafood processing business, but things have not been that easy. All the equipments they have at their processing plant are destroyed and their house was destroyed, too. To make the situation even worse, the insurance does not cover the damage from the tsunami. Despite all the hardship they are going through I really hope that we can have that Fuseshoten's famous Shiyokara someday.