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The Japan 'phone of the wind': Ten years after the great tsunami

 It has been ten years since the devastating Japan earthquake and tsunami .. the aftermath is now known. Years of biological damage from Fukushima, mental anguish from a moment that literally rocked the world and tore apart a coastline of the nation.. There are estimates on how many died, but with so many rural areas being swept out to sea, it will never be known the true final tally on how much suffering occurred within an instant that fateful March 11.. The tenth anniversary of this moment has conjured up old sadness within Japan, and as the world shakes again with dramatic large earthquakes around the plant, and uneasy feeling that one day soon we may see a similar disaster. The scale of the impact on the people of Japan is unmeasurable. So much changed in a literal instant. One example of the sadness and grief still being grappled with comes to us from an unconnected phone line in the town of Otsuchi. This story of this location has put the harrowing loss of life into perspect...