The older Kawamura child was eleven months old when he was killed in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. His mother gave birth to her second child a week before the tsunami hit; her husband, who was on a business trip at the time, did not have the chance to meet his youngest son until his body was found in the morgue.
When the tsunami warnings sounded, the mother was alone with her two sons, having just been discharged from the hospital. She was not able to evacuate; instead, she clutched her children close and tried to ride out the wave as their house was washed away. Her infant was torn from her arms... but when their bodies were found by the woman's desperate husband days later, she was still clutching her older son in her arms, having tried to save him to her last breath.
Their names have not been published, but the story has been told in detail in a number of news articles.
(source: https://www.job.chunichi.co.jp/news/detail.php?nid=2179&ts=1575903919)
When the tsunami warnings sounded, the mother was alone with her two sons, having just been discharged from the hospital. She was not able to evacuate; instead, she clutched her children close and tried to ride out the wave as their house was washed away. Her infant was torn from her arms... but when their bodies were found by the woman's desperate husband days later, she was still clutching her older son in her arms, having tried to save him to her last breath.
Their names have not been published, but the story has been told in detail in a number of news articles.
(source: https://www.job.chunichi.co.jp/news/detail.php?nid=2179&ts=1575903919)
The older Kawamura child was eleven months old when he was killed in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. His mother gave birth to her second child a week before the tsunami hit; her husband, who was on a business trip at the time, did not have the chance to meet his youngest son until his body was found in the morgue.
When the tsunami warnings sounded, the mother was alone with her two sons, having just been discharged from the hospital. She was not able to evacuate; instead, she clutched her children close and tried to ride out the wave as their house was washed away. Her infant was torn from her arms... but when their bodies were found by the woman's desperate husband days later, she was still clutching her older son in her arms, having tried to save him to her last breath.
Their names have not been published, but the story has been told in detail in a number of news articles.
(source: https://www.job.chunichi.co.jp/news/detail.php?nid=2179&ts=1575903919)
When the tsunami warnings sounded, the mother was alone with her two sons, having just been discharged from the hospital. She was not able to evacuate; instead, she clutched her children close and tried to ride out the wave as their house was washed away. Her infant was torn from her arms... but when their bodies were found by the woman's desperate husband days later, she was still clutching her older son in her arms, having tried to save him to her last breath.
Their names have not been published, but the story has been told in detail in a number of news articles.
(source: https://www.job.chunichi.co.jp/news/detail.php?nid=2179&ts=1575903919)
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