Tokyo Letter: After the Disaster
Against The Current vol. 153
Noyes, Matt
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/3311
Date Written: 2011-07-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2011
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13788
Just before 3pm on March 11th, I was standing in the intersection of two small streets in central Tokyo, saying goodbye to my partner before leaving for a work trip to the United States. Earthquakes are common in Japan, but we knew right away this one was different. The earth rumbled and rolled, shifting back and forth and around, the intensity rising and falling and rising again.