One hundred is just a number quite common really as there is one hundred Yen, one hundred Euros’, one hundred dollars or one hundred days. These one hundred markers come and go with little notice. Are there times when a common number can become important it may not seem so, but the common can have resonance when applied to a specific time or incident. Today June 18 is the one hundredth day since one of the worlds worst natural disasters occurred.
One hundred days ago on March 11 at 2:46pm a sunny Friday afternoon the fifth largest earthquake ever recorded shook northeast Japan resulting in a 10 meter tsunami and the nuclear disaster at the Daiichi-Fukushima power plant. More than 25,000 people died as a result of these 3 disasters. One hundred days ago the world came to halt in Japan with towns wiped completely from the face of the earth and the economy of the Tohoku region was destroyed. One hundred days ago 2/3 of the students at an elementary school in Minami Sanriku died when they were swept away by the tsunami. One hundred days ago 100,000 people became homeless. One hundred days ago survivors’ guilt became a part of peoples lives. One hundred days ago no one believed this could happen.
The number one hundred may seem common to those in Japan that number means nothing but grief and despair,
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