Senior Seminar
Event Title
Healing and Trauma: Memories of Children Survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Location
Center for Scholarly Communication
Start Date
4-11-2018 12:00 PM
Presentation Type
Poster
Description
Over 1,700 children were orphaned by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Great East Earthquake was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters ever to hit Japan and its damage was enormous and still continues today. Reconstruction Agency, a government agency, reported (2015) that 241 children under 18 lost both parents and 1537 children lost a parent in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.
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Healing and Trauma: Memories of Children Survivors of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Center for Scholarly Communication
Over 1,700 children were orphaned by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Great East Earthquake was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters ever to hit Japan and its damage was enormous and still continues today. Reconstruction Agency, a government agency, reported (2015) that 241 children under 18 lost both parents and 1537 children lost a parent in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.