But the regions out of the wave the more dynamic of the homes to stand in the rice paddies are jaloin, continued productivity and parks are filled with children squealing.
Difficult to reproduce the contrast is in the whole of the northeastern Japan, including the schools here. On a hill, in the destruction of the Ofunato, many high school, as it was before the March 11, save for a few broken Windows. The lobby has several glass-cases, which include the school baseball team won the trophies.
At least two miles away, Ofunato Higashi High School Kayanaka campus also has escaped serious injury. But now the students filled out the helpful of Rikuzentakata, which is 10 miles away from the tsunami was consumed and Ofunato Takata High school. And, because of military jeeps and a truck parked at the Higashi, field-baseball, n. Takata's team is in the city train with the other school.
In Baseball, though, is the way to the players and coaches the damaged and undamaged schools in the continuation of the foreseeable, if, before they are implemented for heavy routine of the waves arrived. The players better, because on Thursday, the regional tournament to determine who will represent the Prefecture of Iwate, the national high school championship-August begins. That will help you forget some, at least for a few hours, that they will be lost, uncle, or that they live in a refugee Center.
"As you can see, once they are in the training field, all have the same before the disaster, and they appear to be excited about in the run-up to the tournament," said Sasaki Akishi Takata, baseball team manager:. "But when they go home, some of the students can pass through the rubble. They feel are likely to be downwards. I worry about those whose emotions soar and sink on a daily basis. "
55 players Takata's baseball team and it is the job for them to talk about the Owada Masato. The team's Captain and the first Karhea baseman, he makes himself as yakyu jin, someone who is not a baseball itself is vital, as opposed to the martial arts devotee. Owada has been in baseball since the school's Soinisen direct.
Straight back to he is unfailingly courteous and the authorisation holder shall consist of a remarkably. About one-third of her team lost their homes, so that he is relatively lucky still to live for his family, which was before Rikuzentakata tsunami 23,300 residents. But to get the town of Ofunato, he rarely visited before he is now on the commute, winding roads are clogged, the construction of the coastal areas, with the crew.
Perhaps because of the disruption to his life has been so acute, in particular, shows the Owada dedicated baseball, if only to escape to his home town of excess changed reality. As the high school each player he dreams of Koshien Stadium near Osaka, where the national competition will be organized to play. But now he is an extra motivation.
"It is to go to the support of the people of the Koshien by us to do good and to encourage the goal of my back, Rikuzentakata," Owada said. "This experience, we became independent, and our meeting came to increasingly better. And when we play like we can, the people who see us is wonderful, that ye. "
His gentle repeated everywhere in Japan, according to the ballplayers, although they are particularly poignant when banknotes from the angle of the country this year. Rikuzentakata: n waterfront took the full force of the tsunami. Around 2 000 people died or are missing. More than 3 300 homes were destroyed and nearly every building in the city centre had been unsuccessful. Mayor's tsunami survived were City Hall on the roof of the waves crashed over him as a clinging to.
Owada and his team escaped by running the ball in the second field of the higher ground. But their three-story school, which faces water was ruined. Four months later, its classrooms, yet Mud Mounds and waterlogged books to students in the floor. Each window was smashed and a wind flap curtains.
The ball in front of the school field that sneakers to sit next to a handful, sweatsuits aluminum baseball and the paper cranes, the colors of the sea water faded strands. Pictures of the students of the albums is a collection of medals won by the various clubs. Computer motherboards the shine of the Sun.
Since the destruction of the completeness of the information, it is difficult to imagine how any another school will be built there. Even if — and that can take years — it is unclear how many of the families with children to return to the city, which has been devastated its economy. Only people who seem to be operating in the city centre of garbage haulers, a few service station attendants, and convenience store clerks that sell their inventory to truck backs.
Makiko Inoue, Harumi Osawa and Kantaro Suzuki contributed reporting.
This article has been changed to the following fixes:
FIX: July 12, 2011
On Sunday, the article about baseball: n, the importance of helping students in Japan to continue after the tsunami and the earthquake this year as a routine gathering of baseball team manager Ofunato High School in 1984, first name. He is not Sato Ryuei Shigetomi Harvest.
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