A Warning to Hawaii Residents from a Japan Tsunami Survivor
In Hawaii, even if you're in a higher place, please don't think that a tsunami will never come.
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In Hawaii, even if you're in a higher place, please don't think that a tsunami will never come.
After volunteering at Hamaguri Hama, we headed to the Rakuten baseball stadium in Sendai to watch a professional game between the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Both the Japanese and Hawaii cultures are connected to the ocean and land, and understand that there must be a balance in order to achieve sustainability.
This afternoon, as part of the Tomodachi program, the Punahou Intermediate baseball team is being matched up against a local Ishinomaki team.
I'm learning a lot about baseball on this trip and it's fascinating to see and learn the differences between Japanese teams and American teams.
Two years and four months later, the landscape looks improved since my last visit to the devastated areas in September.
It took us two days of long flights, long lines and bus rides to get to our final destination of Sendai, but we are finally here.
After a 10-hour flight, we land in Seoul, South Korea for the night.
Today I will be traveling with the Punahou Gold Intermediate Baseball Team, the coaches and their families on a goodwill trip to the tsunami-affected areas of Japan.
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Maybe we should hang on to all those emergency supplies we bought earlier.