１０年前の３月１１日、桜井勝延はいつものように南相馬市長として忙しくしていた。南相馬市は福島県浜通りにある、太平洋と雄大な阿武隈高地に挟まれた歴史ある小さな沿岸都市だ。この日、１日にして町は壊滅。住民４００人が死亡、１１００人が行方不明となった。
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David McNeill (PhD) is a professor at the Department of English Language, Communication and Cultures at Sacred Heart University in Tokyo. He was previously a correspondent for The Independent and The Economist newspapers and for The Chronicle of Higher Education and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times and other international publications. He is co-author of the book Strong in the Rain (with Lucy Birmingham) about the 2011 Tohoku disaster. He is an Asia-Pacific Journal editor and a long-term member of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan.
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