A ship washed up by the tsunami 10 years ago in a residential area of Ishinomaki in northern Japan. LIbrarians and museum curators are still archiving documents and artefacts that tell the story of the disaster. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria
The race to preserve remnants from 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, and to curate them to offer lessons from the disaster
- Japan’s National Diet Library has 4.45 million items in its digital quake database, including over a million photos; physical artefacts are in regional museums
- Curators are working to make the items easily available to the general public and to preserve remnants of the disaster before they are lost
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A ship washed up by the tsunami 10 years ago in a residential area of Ishinomaki in northern Japan. LIbrarians and museum curators are still archiving documents and artefacts that tell the story of the disaster. Photo: Reuters/Carlos Barria
