Today Miki rented a mini van for our 4-hour drive to Miyagi (yes, we Remember the city name by Mr. Miyagi from karate kid). The drive is very mountainous as we move along the coast. There's a GPS in the car, telling Mikisan to slow down. Haha. Small hillside villages are everywhere. They have mountainside gardens and farming similar to Peru. The mountainside has "steps" to allow for irrigation, otherwise the water would simply wash away. Its a beautiful drive!
This is clearly a logging and fishing community. Japan is a slow to change culture, so after the tsunami they didn't move there homes up hill, instead you "put more effort" and persevere as before. We are hearing that people are rebuilding their communities where the foundations are. They are not moving away from these communities or up hill in the same community, instead going back to exactly where they were. This is still shocking to me.
Happy travels!!
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