{"id":2119,"date":"2020-08-03T15:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T06:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2021-04-29T16:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T07:13:35","slug":"visiting-ogatsu-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/2020\/08\/2119\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Ogatsu Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Written by Karina Sujatmiko, Okumura Lab D1<br><br>In July, at Okumura-Zemi the students heard story about Great East Japan Earthquake told by a survivor named Abe-san. He lived in Ogatsu, a town located outside the city of Ishinomaki in northern Tohoku. Abe-san told the whole story about how he and his family evacuated, survived and live the post-disaster life. He also explained the relocation and reconstruction of Ogatsu town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-3.png 936w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-3-768x433.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1. Reconstruction of old village in Ogatsu Town. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 30, on a nice sunny day I had the opportunity visited Ogatsu town along with Koshiyama-sensei, Okumura-sensei, and Liz-sensei from Tohoku University. It\u2019s been 9 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake happened. Heard Abe-san story and seen the before and after photograph give a point of reference, but standing in the newly reconstructed town and seen the tall seawall creating a far exceed experience to understand how massive the disaster was. We went uphill to see the new reconstruction of the old village where Abe-san lived before the disaster. Standing in the high height I could see a calm and beautiful Ogatsu Bay. It hard to imagine that a devastated tsunami was once came and obliterated the whole town.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"832\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-2.png 832w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-2-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-2-768x572.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 2. High seawall as a countermeasure to protect the surrounding area, built along in Ogatsu Bay. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn\u2019t see many people around Ogatsu town, I heard the population is shrinking and many of them moved out. I know it is hard for people to stay because of the disruption of their business and public facility. However, saw Ogatsu Bay crowded by lines of scallop and oyster farming, I wish people can return to their hometown and revive Ogatsu town.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-1.png 760w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-1-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 3. Calm and beautiful Ogatsu bay, this location used by local for scallop and oyster farming. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31.png 744w, https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2020\/08\/\u56f31-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 4. Small shop sell seafood product. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Karina Sujatmiko, O &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[55,82,81,73],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-11","category-fcss-blog","tag-karina-sujatmiko","tag-pdm","tag-81","tag-73"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wps.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp\/bosai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}