Tsunami survivor tells life-saving story with picture cards

Tsunami survivor tells life-saving story with picture cards

MORIOKA, Japan - Using handmade picture cards, Yoshi Tabata (R) tells a story titled "Tsunami" based on her own experience of the 1933 powerful tsunami that hit the Sanriku region in northeastern Japan, on Nov. 1, 2013 in the inland village of Takizawa, Iwate Prefecture.

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