“Popular manga artists including Satoru Hiura actually made trips to the damaged area and completed their stories, struggling to confront the reality. From this book I feel the essential power and instinct of people to survive. Three years have passed from that day. But the story of each person goes on and on. This is a must-read for all of us.”
Maki Ohashi (Aroma Therapist)
MAKI OHASHI's BLOG
“I finally read ‘stories from 311 —3 years since that day—. It touched me so much. I have to think about what I can do again.”
Sho Ayanokoji (Kishidan)
Kishidan Official Website
“There’re stories only ‘manga’ can tell. What’s important is to keep on telling.”
Daisuke Tsuda (Media Activist)
Daisuke Tsuda Official Website
“I visited the damaged area myself and saw the scale of the damage. It only made me stand still, not being able to believe it happened for real. What can I do? What ‘should’ I do? To be honest, I didn’t know. By reading ‘Stories from 311’, I learnt how people survived. And I pondered again on what I can do. It will take so much more time to recover. But it will be great if we could find out from this book what we can do, even if it is something small. And I believe that the most important thing is to keep the memories from fading.”
hitomi (singer-songwriter)
hitomi Official Website
“Personally I was very moved to feel the struggles and the hesitations of the artists upon confronting the disaster. They must have thought to themselves if they were doing the right thing every time they held their pens. It moved me because that’s the conflict in all us Japanese people who couldn’t be there at the time.”
Miwa Nishikawa (Film Director)
“I regularly read Ms. Satoru Hiura’s tweets and I love her personality. When the book was sent to me, I read the prologue by Ms. Hiura on publishing it and I’m sure the book was realized because her message was true and she wasn’t pretending. That’s why so many people wanted to contribute. As I turned the last page, I feel the love from this book, of people wanting to do something for someone.”
MEG (singer-songwriter)
MEG OFFICIAL SITE
The donation will be sent to the following four organizations:
- ◯Iwate Learning Hope Fund
- ◯Funds for the benefit of Miyagi Children after the Great East Japan Earthquake
- ◯Fukushima Donation for Orphans affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake
- ◯Social action collective United Earth Secretariat NPO Kobe International Harmony-Eyes Association
＜The amount of donation： 9,148,247yen＞ (2014/12/9 update)
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