JAPAN: One year after the tsunami

On 11th March, 2011, at 14 hours 46 minutes, all the clocks stopped in Japan. A magnitude-9 earthquake, followed by tremendous tsunami shook the country. Neighbourhoods, villages, towns completed destroyed by the power of this phenomenon. About 20,000 people died as a result. That was just the beginning. Some very relevant nuclear troubles, some very no-sense governmental attitudes, or strong negative impacts on the national economy were some issues still to come. However, the Japanese people and the inhabitants of Japan are the ones who are really paying these consequences. How did they live that moment? How did they live the aftermath? How are they feeling nowadays? FERNANDO GUTIÉRREZ CHICO, one year after, approaches to this perspective through an interview with Robert Murphy, Teacher of English at the University of Fukushima. * The reference to the bombing attacks in Madrid took place on 11th March 2004, instead 2003 as it is said.