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Teacher vows not to let students die from disaster

SENDAI, Japan - Toshiro Sato (L), a teacher at Onagawa Daiichi Junior High School in the coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, tells students at his school to come up with their own words as a "3.11 message" during an assembly for disaster prevention education on Feb. 15, 2013. Sato believes that not to forget what happened in the quake-tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, is the best disaster prevention.

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Storytelling event on 2011 northeastern Japan disaster

Toshiro Sato, who lost his daughter in the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, talks about the tragedy during a storytelling event on Oct. 25, 2020, in front of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Storytelling activities at the school, where a total of 74 pupils, including his daughter, died in the tsunami, had been suspended for about nine months due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ruins of the Great East Japan Earthquake

People gather for a storytelling event on Aug. 19, 2018 at the ruins of the Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, a monument to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The storyteller Toshiro Sato lost his daughter Mizuho, who was a sixth-grader at the school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo