Fukushima Tsunami Stones Warned Not to Build Nuclear Near Ocean

Hundreds of such “tsunami stones” dot the coastal hillsides of Japan. Planted decades or even centuries ago, they commemorate past disasters and warn residents of future ones. Ge Ignored Tsuami Stones Warnings At Fukushima. Residents of Aneyoshi, Japan, heeded the warnings of their ancestors. They obeyed directions and wisdom found on a local stone monument: “Do not build any homes below this point,” it reads. “High dwellings are the peace and harmony of our descendants. https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tsunami-stones-ancient-japanese-markers-warn-builders-high-water/

Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis.” When the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, this village sat safely above the high water mark.Living in Japan means facing a long history of periodic and unpredictable earthquakes and the tsunamis that follow them. Aneyoshi, village leader Tamishige Kimura praises his forefathers for putting a stone marker in place and obviating the need to rebuild. “They knew the horrors of tsunamis, so they erected that stone to warn us,” he told the New York Times in 2011. Kimura describes its warning as “a rule from our ancestors, which no one in Aneyoshi dares break.”
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