Ishinomaki, Miyagi Pref. ¨C Every morning before work, Kenichi Kurosawa refuels a kerosene lantern at an altar beside a large billboard that reads, ¡°Ganbar¨! Ishinomaki,¡± which can roughly be translated as, ¡°Let¡¯s keep going! Ishinomaki.¡±
Kurosawa created the signboard after his two-story house was smashed by towering waves set off by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck off the nation¡¯s northeastern coast on March 11, 2011.
Since then, the 11-meter-long wooden panel has become a symbol of one of the deadliest natural disasters in Japanese history.
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