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List of Best Things to do in Kesennuma, Japan
Kesennuma Fish Market
Karakuwa Peninsula
Kesennuma Port
Rias Ark Museum of Art
Fukko Yataimura Kesennuma Yokocho
Kesennuma Fukko Shotengai
Ogama Hanzo Rocks
Mt. Kame
Oshima KIisen
Kesennuma Uminoichi Shark Museum
City and local museum curator seek to preserve remnants of devastating tsunami
8 March, 2013
1. Close tilt up of ship stranded ashore in Kesennuma
FILE: 13 March, 2011
2. Wide aerial shot of ship in debris
8 March, 2013
3. Various of ship
4. Mid of resident, Takeshi Fujino walking
5. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Takeshi Fujino, 75, retired resident of Kesennuma:
We don't need it. Rather than that, I think its better take it away and rebuild the city. It's sitting on the land of residents there, whatever they say they're going to build. We won't be able to move forward as long as its there.
6. Close of Kesennuma mayor Shigeru Sugawara
7. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Shigeru Sugawara, Mayor of Kesennuma city:
In Japan, we have been warned that in the not so distant future, there will be an enormous tsunami that will hit several regions, which would result in a disaster similar to what happened here, or even worse. People won't know what to do, or how big the tsunami could become, so I think it's important that they understand and are able to feel the potential impact, and prepare.
FILE: 11 March, 2011
8. Various shots of the tsunami hitting Japan's coast
9 March 2013
9. Close focus shift of tsunami artefacts at the Rias Ark Museum of Art
10. Wide of tsunami artefacts in the Rias Ark Museum of Art
11. Mid of Rias Ark Museum of Art curator Hiroyasu Yamauchi picking up a red schoolbag
12. Close pan from Yamauchi to red schoolbag
9 March 2013
13. Wide of earthquake and tsunami photograph exhibits under preparation
14. Close of photographs lined up
15. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Hiroyasu Yamauchi, curator at the Rias Ark Museum of Art:
There will be another big tsunami hitting this region in the next 30 or 40 years - that's how it is historically. And because we know that's going to happen, this experience, the record of it or the knowledge, must always be taken as our own problem, and we need figure out a way so that we never stop sparing the time to think about that. I think that's very important.
16. Wide of Yamauchi sorting drawings depicting scenes from the Meiji Sanriku Tsunami that hit the coastal area in 1896
17. Close focus shift of one drawing, which shows dead bodies in the ocean being hauled onto shore by local residents using a fishing net
18. Wide tilt down of ship with offerings for the victims laid at the bottom of the ship
19. Close focus shift from the ship to the Ebisu, god of sea and fishing
STORYLINE
Two years on, iconic remnants of the March 2011 earthquake and disaster are at a crossroads - whether they stay as reminders of the devastation, or they are removed - too painful a reminder for victims to bear, or just plain in the way.
A 60-metre-long ship is one of them, still stranded in an empty swath of land in the tsunami-hit city of Kesennuma.
Today, the No.18 Kyotokumaru draws a small stream of visitors who leave offerings at the foot of the fishing vessel.
The city wants to preserve the ship as a tsunami memorial, but many residents are opposed to the idea - including Takeshi Fujino, whose house overlooks the ship.
We don't need it. Rather than that, I think its better take it away and rebuild the city, Fujino said. We won't be able to move forward as long as its there.
The city, however, is pushing ahead with plans to preserve the ship, and is negotiating with the ship's owners not to dismantle it.
Shigeru Sugawara, Kesennuma's mayor, says it is the city's responsibility to preserve a landmark that could possibly save the lives of thousands of others who could be affected by a disastrous tsunami in Japan, one of the most earthquake-prone countries.
People won't know what to do, or how big the tsunami could become, so I think it's important that they understand and are able to feel the potential impact, and prepare, said Sugawara.
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