Kumamoto earthquake museum

Kumamoto earthquake museum

Photo taken July 14, 2023, shows an item on display at a museum in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, built in memory of the deadly earthquakes that struck the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto and neighboring Oita in 2016. The facility, named "Kioku," meaning "memory" in Japanese, opened the following day.

Kumamoto earthquake museum

Kumamoto earthquake museum

Photo taken July 14, 2023, shows a museum in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, built in memory of the deadly earthquakes that struck the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto and neighboring Oita in 2016. The facility, named "Kioku," meaning "memory" in Japanese, opened the following day.

Kumamoto earthquake museum

Kumamoto earthquake museum

Photo taken July 14, 2023, shows a museum in Minamiaso, Kumamoto Prefecture, built in memory of the deadly earthquakes that struck the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto and neighboring Oita in 2016. The facility, named "Kioku," meaning "memory" in Japanese, opened the following day.

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

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

Woman acts as storyteller at memorial hall dedicated to 2011 disaster victims

Woman acts as storyteller at memorial hall dedicated to 2011 disaster victims

Yuko Tanno, shown in this photo taken on Feb. 15, 2015, serves as a storyteller at the Yuriage Kioku (memory) hall dedicated to people in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, who were killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku. Tanno lost her 13-year-old son Kota in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

People gather before memorial hall dedicated to 2011 disaster victims

People gather before memorial hall dedicated to 2011 disaster victims

Yuko Tanno (2nd from R, front row) and other people pose on Feb. 15, 2015, in front of the Yuriage Kioku (memory) hall dedicated to people in the Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, who were killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern Japanese region of Tohoku. Tanno lost her 13-year-old son Kota in the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo