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A
Abe, Fumiko
Abe, Ryosuke
Abe, Shinzo
aftershocks; children’s fear of; driving during; precautions against; in Tokyo; warnings of
Aikawa Elementary School
Aizawa
Akasaka, Norio
altars, household (butsudan)
America, see United States
ancestor worship
Arcadia, Japanese
atomic bombs
B
Bashō
Buddhists; funerals of; golden hands of; household altars of; ritual march for departed souls of; secret cults of; unity of being of; Zen; see also Café de Monku; temples, Buddhist
butsudan (household altars)
C
Café de Monku
Calvino, Italo
carelessness
casualty figures
Chernobyl
Chiba, Masahiko
Chiba Prefecture
Chile, tsunami caused by earthquake in
China
Chive Island
Christianity
compassion
construction regulations, Japanese
cremation
D
detachment (feeling); professional
Disaster Counter-Measure Rooms
domestic leave-taking
dreams; disturbing
E
earthquakes; children picked up from school after; electricity and communications system outages due to; intensity and magnitude of; safety precautions during and immediately after; tectonic plate collisions as origin points for; in Tokyo; tsunami warnings following; undersea; see also aftershocks; tremors
electricity, failure of, see power outages
Endo, Junji; discrepancies in account given by; during earthquake and aftershocks; evacuation of Okawa students advocated by; “explanatory meeting” with parents addressed by; mental illness assertions of; physical and mental injuries of; popularity with students of; at refugee center
Endo, Miki
enlightened soul
epicenters
exorcisms
F
Festival of the Dead
Fire and Disaster Management Agency
fires; actions to take in case of; atomic bombing; lives lost in; in oil facilities
First World War
Fuji lake
Fukuji; parents’ group formed in; Shito family’s line of descent in
Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant; explosive plume above; nationwide anxiety about; opposition to nuclear power after meltdown at
funeral tablets
funerals; for children whose remains had not been recovered; performed by Reverend Kaneta; preservation of corpses for long-distant transport to
G
gaman (endurance, patience, or perseverance)
ganbarō (exhortation to overcome challenges)
gareki (rubble)
Germany, nuclear power abandoned in
ghosts
Ginza
Gourevitch, Philip
Great Kanto earthquake
H
hakama (formal traditional skirt)
Hamayuri (catamaran)
Hashiura
Heart Sutra
Hijikata, Masashi
Hiratsuka, Koharu; medium relays messages to mother from; recovery of remains of; search for remains of
Hiratsuka, Naomi; antipathy to Fukuji group of; avoidance of legal action by husband and; continues search for other missing children; demolition of Okawa Elementary School ruins supported by; extended family household of; medium relays messages from daughter to; recovery of remains of daughter of; searches for daughter’s remains; teaching career of
Hiratsuka, Sae
Hiratsuka, Shinichiro
Hiratsuka, Toma
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of; preservation of ruins after
Hitler, Adolf
Hokkaido
Hokusai, Katsushika
Honshu
hotoke-sama (enlightened soul)
household altars (butsudan)
I
Ibaraki Airport
Ikegami, Masaki
Imperial Army
Indian Ocean
Indonesia
intensity, seismic
Internet
Invisible Cities (Calvino)
Irikamaya
Ishinomaki; Board of Education of; government of; high school in; hospital in; junior high school in; legal action against
Ishizaka, Toshiya
Italy, nuclear power abandoned in
Iwate Prefecture
J
Japan Masters Athletics
Japan Meteorological Agency
Japan Self-Defense Forces
Jizo
Jogan Era
K
Kahoku
kaidan (weird tale)
Kamaishi
Kamaya; celebration for middle school graduates in; conventional flooding of; destruction of houses in; earthquake in; natural features bounding; recovery of bodies in ; tsunami warnings ignored in; village life before disaster in
Kamiyama, Yuichiro
Kan, Naoto
Kanan West Junior High School
Kaneta, Reverend Taio; Café de Monku events organized by; exorcisms performed by; funeral services conducted by; on ritual march to Shizugawa
Kanto plain
Kashiba, Teruyuki; away from school during disaster; belated visits to ruins of school by; in ceremony with surviving children; interviewed by education board; at meetings with parents of dead children; Sendai District Court testimony of; statement of apology addressed to parents presented by
kashitsu (negligence)
Kato, Shigemi
Kawabata, Ms. (Okawa school secretary)
Kawakami, Naoya
Kawasaki
Kesennuma
Kitakami River; bridge over, see New Kitakami Great Bridge; conventional flooding from; fields along banks of; fishing in; mouths of; thatching reeds harvested from; tsunami on
Konno (Ishinomaki Board of Education officer)
Konno, Daisuke; parents’ search for; recovery of remains of; teacher disregards evacuation argument of
Konno, Hiroyuki
Konno, Hitomi; in Fukuji group; helps recover bodies at Okawa Elementary School ruins; recovers family members’ remains; at refugee center; reunited with husband; sees Endo in Irikamay
Konno, Mari
Konno, Ms. (Okawa teacher)
Konno, Rika
Konno, Teruo
Kumagai, Sadayoshi
Kurihara
Kyodo news agency
Kyoto
Kyotoku-maru (fishing boat)
L
landslides
Liberal Democratic Party
Love-at-First-Sight rice variety
M
Magaki
magnitude
Matsubara
mediums
Meiji Sanriku Tsunami
Minami-Sanriku; Disaster Prevention Center in
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
Miura, Akemi
Miyagi Prefecture
Monk, Thelonious
Mount Fear
Mount Fuji
Mutsu
N
Naburi
Nagano, Hideko
Nagano, Waichi
Naganuma, Koto
Naganuma, Masaru
Nagasaki, atomic bombing of
Nagatsuura lagoon
Nakamura, Kichiemon
Nankai Trough
Narrow Road to the Deep North, The (Bashō)
National Police Agency
Natori
negligence
Neolithic era
New Kitakami Great Bridge; collapse of portion of; traffic island near
nightmares
nintai (endurance, patience, or perseverance)
Nirajima
North Korea
nuclear power; see also Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant
O
Ofunato
Ogatsu
Oikawa, Toshinobu
Okawa Elementary School; bereaved mothers’ book about; condition of, after retreat of tsunami; demolition versus preservation of buildings of; Education Plan for; evacuation failure at; graduation ceremony at; Incident Verification Committee for; legal action against teachers and administration of; location of; medium’s visit to; nighttime visits by teenagers to; principal of, see Kashiba, Teruyuki; public meetings for parents of children who died at; rumor of helicopter rescue from; safety procedures at; search for and recovery of remains of missing students from; student body and class sizes at; survivors from (see also Endo, Junji; Tadano, Tetsuya); tsunami warnings ignored at; video of tsunami in vicinity of; waiting for children to return home from; widespread interest in story of tragedy at
Okinawa
Onagawa
Ono, Takeshi
Onoe, Kikugoro
Onosaki
Ooms, Herman
Oppa Bay
Osaka
Oshika
Otsuchi
P
Pacific Ocean
paddies
Popham, Peter
possession by spirits; ridding individuals of, see exorcisms
post-traumatic stress disorder
power outages; lack of information due to; at Okawa Elementary School
professional detachment
Protestants
psychics, see mediums
R
radiation
refugees; at Café de Monku events; at Chibas’ house; gaman of; housing for, see temporary houses; shelters for
rice paddies
Rikuzen-Takata
Ring (film)
River of Three Crossings
Russia
S
safety procedures
Salt Field
samurais, descendants of
Sanriku Coast; tsunami on
Sasaki, Nagomi
Sasaki, Takashi
Sasaki, Tetsuma
Sasaki, Toshimitsu
Sato, Fuka
Sato, Katsura
Sato, Kazutaka
Sato, Kenta
Sato, Mitsuhiro
Sato, Mizuho
Sato, Soma
Sato, Tomoko
Sato, Toshiro
Sato, Yuki
Second World War; Imperial Navy in
seismologists
Sendai; care home for disabled in; digger training center near; District Court in; earthquakes in; ghost in; publishing company in; Tetsuya’s public speech in; tsunamis in surrounding area of
Shimokawara, Takashi
Shinto
Shioden
Shishido, Kenetsu
Shito, Chisato; birth and infancy of; during earlier earthquake; last morning of; mother expects return home of; nightmare of; recovery of remains of
Shito, Kenya
Shito, Mizuho
Shito, Sayomi; during earthquake; expects missing daughter’s return home; in Fukuji group; last morning with daughter; legal action involvement of; at middle school graduation; missing daughter’s remains recovered by; suicidal thoughts of; surviving family members of
Shito, Takahiro; in Fukuji group; helps with preparations for helicopter rescue; legal action involvement of; missing daughter’s remains recovered by
Shito, Tomoka
shrines; constructed by parents for their dead children; honoring hanged war criminals; in front of Okawa Elementary School; survivors sheltered in; thatches for; in Yokogawa
Soma
Sri Lanka
Sumi (medium)
“super-tsunamis”
Suto, Ayane
Suto, Tsutomu
Suzuki, Dr.
Suzuki, Hana
Suzuki, Kento
Suzuki, Miho; deaths of family members of; in legal action against Ishinomaki; letters to missing daughter written by; medium visited by; searches for daughter’s remains
Suzuki, Mitsuko
Suzuki, Ms. (Okawa school nurse)
Suzuki, Shinichi
Suzuki, Yoshiaki
Suzuki, Yuto
“swarms” of earthquakes
Switzerland, nuclear power abandoned in
T
Tada, Keizo
Tadano, Hideaki; at Sendai District Court
Tadano, Mina
Tadano, Shiroe
Tadano, Tetsuya; educational enthusiasm of; escapes from tsunami; mother’s and sister’s bodies located; preservation of Okawa Elementary School ruins advocated by; at Sendai District Court
Taga Castle
Tagajo
taiman (carelessness)
Takahashi, Kazuo
Takahashi, Kohei
Takahashi, Rumiko
Takahashi, Toshio
Takeyama, Yui
Tales of Tono, The (folklore)
Tanabata summer festival
Taniyama, Yozo
tectonic plates
telephone service, loss of
temples, Buddhist; Café de Monku held at; destroyed by tsunami; exorcisms in; funerals for tsunami victims performed in; mummified corpses of priests displayed in; priest’s quarters of; survivors sheltered in; thatch for roofs of
temporary houses
Thailand
Thwaite, Anthony
Tohoku; climate of; dialect spoken in; earthquake and tsunami projections after disaster in; folklore of; history of; hospitality of homeless refugees in; power and communications failures in; reconstruction in; traditional culture of; varieties of mediumship in; see also Kitakami River, Oppa Bay, Sanriku Coast, specific cities, towns, and villages
Tohoku University
Tokyo; earthquakes in; panic in, after Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster; prenatal care in; region surrounding, see Tohoku; stock exchange in
tremors; frequency of; moderate, waves generated by; safety procedures at Okawa Elementary School during
tsunami warnings; failure to act on; size of waves reported in
typhoons
U
Ukitsu, Amane
Ukitsu, Miwae
United States; opening of nineteenth century Japan by; school system of
V
Valdivia (Chile)
volcanoes
W
warnings; evacuation; see also tsunami warmings
weird tale (kaidan)
World War II, see Second World War
Y
Yamada, Moto
Yamamoto, Seina
Yasukuni Shrine
Yeats, W. B.
Yokogawa
Yokohama
Yoshioka, Kazuhiro
Z
Zen