October 17, 2012

The members in charge of the Itako area convened at the university to hold a debriefing session on the situation in the Hinode district and exchanged opinions about the investigation. On October 24th, the team traveled there to have a meeting with the faculty of the junior high school. It was an occasion to discuss the concrete objectives of collaboration between the school and the university as well as to update everyone on the real condition of the area. This meeting proved to be the origin of a deep reflection on the attainable goals of the project.

We also took a look at the surrounding environs of Hinode. Here and there, construction was taking place to repair damages from the liquefaction phenomenon — however, it seemed to us that there is still a great amount of time and progress before the area would return to the way it appeared prior to the disaster. (Kamiura)