Tsunami Survivor: Ishinomaki’s Statue of Liberty
Last year, the city of Ishinomaki built a 9-meter-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty as a tourist attraction. When the March 11th, 2011 tsunami hit the area, most buildings were completely destroyed, but the statue survived – cracked and damaged, but still standing upright:
Nikkan Sports has an article about the statue’s survival. Although many residents were apparently not very enthusiastic about the statue before, some are now thinking ahead to the future and want to use the statue as a symbol of the town’s recovery.
Another inanimate survivor was Ishinomaki’s statue of the super hero Kamen Rider:
One of Ishinomaki’s other major tourist attractions, the replica of the warship San Juan Bautista, also survived the tsunami. Like the statue, there are plans to use it as a symbol of recovery.
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