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You forgot to mention the elderly people who enlisted to clean up the mess. 😢 They were willing to sacrifice themselves so young people didn't get exposed to radiation. Some true heroes.

“Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death”

There was one town who spared from the tsunami with only a single death, Fudai, Iwate. It was all because of one of the previous mayor, Kotoku Wamura's, decision to have an Extremely controversial floodgate built. It was because of him knowing how much death and distruction a tsunami could cause that he managed to save his town years after his death.

That poor man who doesn't like the rain because he sees the faces of the dead in the puddles is so chilling. It shows the trauma all survivors suffered and will suffer for the rest of their lives. The world has moved on but those survivors will always have the events of that day imprinted on their minds for the rest of their lives. God bless them all. 🙏

The most powerful story from this disaster has got to be the legion of retirees and elderly who volunteered to do cleanup because they didn’t want youngsters to suffer the long term effects of radiation exposure.

i've heard that cab drivers who pick up ghosts still drive them to the destination even after theyve visually vanished, open the door for them to let them out, and continue on. japanese tales of spirits and their culture of respect never ceases to break my heart.

"Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death" is such a powerful line

I remember the cab driver story's end, he completed the trip as a sign of respect, and even opened the door for her to get out when he got to the area, in order to be sure to please the ghost.

Imagine being the enginner who built this place, you literally did everything you can, designed so many safety protocal, and nature throws a 50ft wave at your power plant

"The man now hates the rain, because he sees the faces of those who died in the puddles."

I was in Chiba, Japan when this happened, I was trapped on a train for an hour and then had a 3 hour walk home as all the trains stopped. My wife had a seven hour walk home from Tokyo. As she left her work building she saw huge pieces of concrete that had fallen off the building. Luckily not hitting anyone. I remember the train screeching to a halt then rocking so violently I thought it would roll over. The lamp posts I could see on the street outside were vibrating very quickly. We all then got off the front of the train and had to walk along the tracks to the nearest station ahead. It had severe damage to the signs, roof, a lift had fallen through the shaft and water was pouring out of walls and pipes. I then went down on to the street and it was eerie, no electricity, cars bumper to bumper and not moving, buses packed like sardine tins and women buying pairs of trainers to walk home in from the few shoe shops that were still open and discarding their high heels. People were on the street with hard hats on. I got home to my 9th floor flat and the place looked like it had been in a washing machine. All night long there were aftershocks and the building was swaying. No sleep that night. The next morning I stood on the balcony as an aftershock hit, it was like a roller coaster and a few hundred metres away a neighbours old wooden house burst into flames. They must have been cooking breakfast and spilt oil or a gas pipe burst. What made things worse was a law that said a national disaster couldn't be announced until all parliamentary members were present in the diet building and agreed to it. This slowed things down somewhat as politicians had to travel to Tokyo to declare this and travel was severely restricted. However, they did manage to sneak in a law overnight that made the radiation level in a nuclear reactor the same legal level on the street anywhere in Japan. Then they could say everything was safe and therewas nothing to worry about. Radiation was found all over the country, in grass, in cows milk and in human breast milk. People who had money quickly fled to Okinawa. The French Government laid on planes for it's citizens to get out. The UK government advised it's citizens to get out then did absolutely nothing to help them. There are stories of how calmly people reacted but believe me it wasn't like that. I remember standing in a queue outside a supermarket to buy a bag of rice and as the doors opened at 10am, people just rushed in and grabbed what they could. A free for all. Supermarket shelves were empty and opened only for a few hours each day. They put limits such as one bag of rice and one loaf of bread per person but people got round that by having families spilt up and target different supermarkets. They had to ban shellfish for a time and tuna in America was found to have radiation in it as it is a fish that travels back and forth across the Pacific. Then other fish that feed on tuna were found to have radiation in them. The terrible thing was that not one prefecture in Japan agreed to take the waste from Fukushima for recycling or disposal. It had to shipped out of Japan to developing countries who agreed to take it. People were homeless for years and lived in school sports halls. The Government really failed people and still are. I did a radio interview with a station in the UK explaining how the immigration office was packed with people trying to get re-entry visas, which were required at the time for people to leave Japan and come back later if you were a resident. Usually the wait for a re-entry visa was half a day but they were smashing them out in 30 minutes at about £30 a pop. On my walk home I saw lots of damage, a burning oil refinery, burst water mains, cracked walls. I remember the newspaper story about a building site that had a crane overhanging a main road in Tokyo, a really brave Korean worker climbed the tower crane as it was shaking and turned it round so if it fell, it wouldn't fall across the main road. We should remember the Fukushima 57. They knew they would die shortly after going in to clear the site at Fukushima but they still did it.

The last minute story not only gave me chills, but broke my heart into pieces... I'm so deeply sorry for everyone who's lives changed by the unforseen disaster😭

I never realized a scientist could be so great at telling ghost stories. This gave me chills.

“The man now hates the rain, because he sees the faces of those who’ve died, in the puddles”

I feel like with this being such a small and subtle meltdown compared to Chernobyl, and it being the second worst nuclear disaster in human history, it speaks to how stable and controlled nuclear power plants have become, when handled properly. Especially since this was set off by a natural disaster.

Watching this reminded me of how I was seeing my deceased friend for 3 months after his death.He took his own life violently and we were close. I saw him in car windows as I walked by and in water reflecting on the ground when it rained. He was always smiling and it never scared me. In fact it helped me grieve to know he was alright. I think of him every day.

“Ghosts are more tolerable than the void created by death," what a powerful quote

“A sign at the front forbids playing Pokémon Go”

As someone suffering from PTSD, I am not surprised to hear that survivors now see "ghosts." In a way flashbacks are like the ghosts of memories, coming back to haunt us. Sometimes mine are so real I can see, smell, hear, and feel everything that happens in a flashback. So seeing and speaking to the "ghosts," of potential victems in the water could easily be flashbacks of the tradgedies they've endured.