Fourteen years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, disaster public housing complexes are seeing more residents who are older and people who weren¡¯t hit by the disaster moving in.
Residents in such housing complexes in Sendai are working with volunteers to run a children¡¯s cafeteria and organize other events to provide opportunities for people of different generations to strengthen ties within their community.
One day in mid-February, at the Tsubamesawa public housing complex in Sendai¡¯s Miyagino Ward comprising some 50 households, an older woman welcomed Yumi Watanabe, the head of the residents¡¯ association who was visiting her.
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