{"id":4580,"date":"2021-05-25T18:42:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=4580"},"modified":"2021-05-25T18:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T22:42:45","slug":"second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2021\/05\/25\/second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link to Article:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/14\/second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later\"> Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For almost 10 years, the clock hanging in Bunshun Sakano\u2019s temple was a reminder of the day nature\u2019s force came close to destroying his community. The clock, which is thought to be about 100 years old, stopped ticking after the north-east coast of Japan was struck by an earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people on 11 March 2011. Fumonji temple, which lies a few hundred metres from the tsunami-hit coast in Yamamoto, a town in Miyagi prefecture, was hit by the waves, with only its pillars and roof spared by the deluge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then late on 13 February this year \u2013 just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the disaster \u2013 the same region was struck by another powerful earthquake, described by seismologists as an aftershock of the March 2011 quake. The following morning Sakano, the Buddhist temple\u2019s head priest, went to check the main hall for any damage when he heard a ticking sound. The clock, which had remained silent even after being repeatedly cleaned, was moving again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A representative of Seiko, the clock\u2019s manufacturer, told the Mainichi: \u201cIt\u2019s possible that the pendulum, which had stopped, started moving again with the shaking of the earthquake, or that dust that had built up inside came loose.\u201d The clock was a silent source of inspiration for Sakano as he set about helping the local community in the aftermath of the tsunami, bringing together volunteers, and, a year later, opening a cafe for people whose homes had been destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link to Article: Second chance: clock stopped after Japan tsunami starts ticking a decade later For almost 10 years, the clock hanging in Bunshun Sakano\u2019s temple was a reminder of the day nature\u2019s force came close to destroying his community. The clock, which is thought to be about 100 years old, stopped ticking after the north-east coast of Japan was&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2021\/05\/25\/second-chance-clock-stopped-after-japan-tsunami-starts-ticking-a-decade-later\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}