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dandelion_rose
Posts: 657 Location: Kuala Lumpur |
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Looking forward to the English release of this.
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poonk
Posts: 1478 Location: In the Library with Philip |
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Riddley
Posts: 536 Location: Ireland |
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Just want to say I think Rebecca wrote that piece about the book beautifully. It is about people. How often we can forget that due to language barriers.
I still grieve for those people and their families whenever I read news about it or related to it. |
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keichitsu0305
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Excellent article Rebecca.
I will buy the book once it comes out. |
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mgosdin
Posts: 969 Location: Kissimmee, Florida, USA |
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All those years of reading "Paris Match" in High School are about to pay off.
I will be buying this. Mark Gosdin |
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marie-antoinette
Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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This definitely sounds like a fascinating book, I will also definitely pick up an English version (my French is probably not good enough to read it atm).
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Juno016
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I help with research for the event--things being done, projects being abandoned, projects being started, the people who have been affected and aren't covered as much in the news (including Koreans and Chinese, burakumin, now single fathers, grandparents who no longer have children or grandchildren to care for them, etc.--minorities)...
It's still tragic and it still brings tears to my eyes. But it's a fact of life everyone affected is trying to get over and go on with their lives, despite relocation and personal loss and other big community issues. Needless to say, I will be getting this in either Japanese or English--wherever it might be released. |
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maaya
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doesn't surprise me all that much actually. I was in Japan on that day, near Osaka, the earthquake didn't even reach that far, let alone the tsunami. What happened was all over the news, but I hadn't turned on the TV that day and never knew about it until people from abroad contacted me. In half of the nation life went on like nothing ever happened. They'd go on attending seminars and doing presentations like always while on the other side of the country a real apocalypse was taking place ... so very ... emotionally distant ...
This is a bit exaggerated, a kind of embellished view from the outside? You can be sure that french people (and most others for that matter) would be just as loyal and united if a similar tragedy struck them, maybe even more so, because as said ... being there it felt much more like "half a nation (+hiroshima) being devastated, the rest mostly going on like every other day". Last edited by maaya on Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:19 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Mohawk52
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It's not surprising that the Japanses are so laizay faire when it comes to earthquakes, because they get on average several a year, some very minor, some a little bigger, so for anyone that were far away from the event epicentre to maybe feel a little trembling it would be just another day in Japan. On topic and about this book; the sad thing about this is even today very little is being done to rebuild the areas involved, expecially around the exclusion zone of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station disaster. That's going to take years if ever, and cost billions. Japan is only now slowly trying to get up on its knees from this, and it could easily happen again today, tomorrow, or 1,000 years from now. No one knows. I will be getting this when it gets an English translation.
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maaya
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It's not surprising that the Japanese are so laissez faire, full stop ^^;
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moshi-moshi
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We would never have imagined my husbands last year BD - watching helplessly images of Japan disaster. Still cannot watch some of the footage when repeated, even now. Can't think of what people who were affected, went through, what sort of aftermath they are still having! Would love to buy this book when published in English.
BTW, loved the interview. |
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Princess_Irene
Posts: 1258 Location: The castle beyond the Goblin City |
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I cannot tell you how happy it makes me to read that so many of you will buy the book. I had a chance to catch up with David and Yasmine again at Japan Expo, and to speak about Un an apres a bit more. Yasmine and I actually spent quite a bit of time discussing her story, and I hope to get that conversation to you soon. In the meantime, Kaze has a preview on their website.
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alonsorules8
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I will be purchasing this wonderful book when it come out in english. Thank you for the great article, and hope it has huge orders in every language it released in.
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