Survivor of 2011 disaster recounts ordeal at new facility in northern Japan

Teiko Otomo talks about her experience of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake at the brand-new "Yuriage no Kioku" (Memory of Yuriage) resource center in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 25, 2015, following its relocation earlier in the day from the previous site about 1 km away. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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