3. At Minami SANRIKU Town - Epilogue

3.  at South SANRIKU Town - Epilogue

Dear my friend,

Since the new mission as a volunteer was given to me, I have observed the disaster of SANRIKU exactly and think about it as far as I could.  I have taken many photos and videos.  I challenged to take interviews here from the refugees as well as people helping them. 

I have challenged to construct a website for reporting the stage of affairs and to promote supporting the revival of SANRIKU by the people of the WORLD.  These are for me the first time experiences. 

It was not so difficult for me to take interviews.  I could conquer my hesitation by thinking about the huge disasters and people suffering from them.  But, it was very difficult for me to construct a website to assist for SANRIKU. With only courage, wishes and passion, one cannot overcome technical difficulties.  I have my personal website "Hajime Yoshino Online", which was, however, constructed by my assistant, who was very good at IT, according to my requests long time ago.  Unfortunately, my present assistant is not good at IT.  I can update HajimeYoshinoOnline for myself only in the limited range using Homepage Builder produced by IBM.  I have never edited movies and uploaded them in Internet world.  I have never dealt with Blog.  Almost all things, I have had to learn from the beginning.  It has taken much time indeed.

Some friends gave me kind suggestions and helps to build a Blog site.  According to their suggestions and assistances, I have endeavored to build a Blog site.  For a beginner, it has not been easy to construct a Blog site.  (If one would be accustomed to Blog, it would be no more difficult to build a Blog site.) I learned step by step, for example to chose appropriate Blog provider, to construct a Blog site, to find an appropriate movie editing software for MP4 files produced by Sony Digital Camera DSC-TX5 or converting software from MP4 to WMV, how to use them, and so on.  To choose photos or movies to be uploaded and edited has been also time consuming work. The present Blog "The Word for SANRIKU" is a very poor result of my time consuming endeavor.  It stands only on the first step.  It is to be developed step by step.

The tentative URL of the Blog site "THE WORD FOR SANRIKU" is:

http://hyoshino.blogspot.com/

I am sorry that this 5^th message to you is dispatched so late, as the Blog construction is delayed.  However, the Blog is finally realized somehow, even if it is still poor and to be developed further.  In this Blog, we can provide much more photos than e-mails.  We can provide movies as well.  These could convey you much more reality of the disaster and the movements for the revival. 

The reality of this dreadful spectacle sight of destroyed town, Minami (South) SANRIKU, shakes oneself deeply to his foundation.   If one looks at the sight with his eyes in fact and hears the experiences from refugees with his ears directly, one cannot help endeavoring to do his best for them.  That is the case also for me.  This Blog site is one of small products of such endeavors by me.

In this Blog, we could submit our sympathies, comments, opinions and/or proposals into the box of comment ("コメント").  These comments could contribute at any rate to promote the movements to support sufferers from the disasters in SANRIKU toward the revival.  Dear my friend; let me invite you and beg you to submit your comments to this blog "The World For Sanriku".

It would be nice if the WORLD could do FOR SANRIKU.

It should be realized that the WORLD tries to do FOR SANRIKU.

Please help us for this!

Please join us for this!

Please start or continue this on your side!

Please suggest us what we should do further!

With best wishes,

Yours,

Hajime

吉野一

Hajime Yoshino

明治学院大学名誉教授

Professor of Law Emeritus
Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo