‘Sorry for doing well’ Translated by: Masaharu Yamauchi
山内 雅晴
Edited by: Rebecca Silva
In the devastated area, as a reporter, there are two questions I have to ask sufferers: ‘how about your house?’ and ‘how about your family?’ I sometimes feel heart broken when I ask these questions that evoke the depth of their hollow sorrow.
I got a similar feeling when I asked Ms. Hiromi (35) these questions. She bowed her head saying, “I’m sorry. Both my family and house are ok.”
Her house, that was built on a highland, was spared the damage from the tsunami. But, the next day after I met her, her family moved to the next city. “We can’t live in Minamisanriku where there is no water supply and most of the shops have been flooded by the tsunami. Above all, when I walk in the town, I feel like being told, ‘You have good luck, because both your family and car are ok.’ and bursting.”
The other day, when her son tried to bring a baseball uniform to join a baseball practice, she told him, “Your teammates won’t have them. You have to think more.” After she said this, she was about to break into tears and put her arm around him. “Sorry. You have done nothing wrong.”
She told me that she would come back someday…. She looked over her shoulder many times from a truck that was loaded with her household belongings while driving away from the devastated town.
(Hideyuki Miura)
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