Lone pine tree symbol of hope in Japan tsunami city
RIKUZENTAKATA: A lone pine standing on the shore of a tsunami destroyed the Japanese city, a symbol of hope and challenge for people who have lost everything.
The tree was one of 70,000 in a forest that had protected the city of Rikuzentakata winds of the ocean for over 300 years.
Large parts of the city are now in ruins, with only the shells of some concrete buildings still standing. Ten percent of the city's population is dead or missing.
The forest of black pine and red has also gone, scattered like matchsticks in the station once rather by the enormous power of the tsunami on March 11 - with the exception of this single tree, whose survival is counted as a "miracle "By those whose houses have now disappeared.
"Since he was the only tree left intact, it will become a symbol of restoration, " said 23-year Eri Kamaishi, as she stood in the shadow of the tree now known locally as "Pine hope. " (AFP)
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