"Kataribe" or story teller, Rumi Miyakawa (left) and professor of Touhoku Fukushi University Yoshihiko Watanabe (right) Source: Rumi Miyakawa/Yoshihiko Watanabe Survivors of the 2011 Japan tsunami ...
About 20 years ago, Matsuo started her activities as a “kataribe,” people who share their war experiences publicly. Her older sister died after being crushed under her collapsed house about ...
He is the new leader of Kataribe Kobe 1995, a group of quake-related storytellers. Hasegawa joined the group in 2014 and belongs to the “last generation who have direct knowledge of the ...
That's when he started volunteering as a kataribe, or storyteller, at the Iwaki 3.11 Memorial and Revitalization Museum. Ono Akihiro at the Iwaki 3.11 Memorial and Revitalization Museum.