First published by Allen & Unwin in 2017
Text © John Heffernan 2017
Series concept © series creator and series editor Lyn White 2017
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Excerpt on page 2 is taken from The Seed of Hope in the Heart: March 2014 – Three years from “3.11” and is used with kind permission of the author, Teiichi Sato.
Excerpt on page 50 is taken from Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, originally published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York, 2013. Copyright © 2013 by Gretel Ehrlich. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
Cover and text design by Sandra Nobes
Cover photos: portrait of boy by Shuji Kobayashi/Getty; torī gate by Michael S.
Yamashita/Getty; tsunami waves by AFP Photography, LLC/Getty; boat by AAP/ Stephen Morrison © 2017 AAP