Japan On Israel's Assistance during Tsunami: 'We Will Never Forget'

JNS News Staff : Apr 1, 2021
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"...For us, Israel—despite its being so far away and so different—will always be remembered as the first country that came to our rescue and gave us the feeling that we are connected to the rest of the world. Japan is an island nation, and our first inclination when disaster strikes is to handle things on our own; but Israel, rather than focus on its own problems, extended its outstretched hand, and we are tremendously thankful for its assistance." -Masafumi Nishizawa, a local physician

[Israel365.com] March 11, 2011 began as an ordinary winter day with gray skies for the 12,000 people living in the fishing village of Minamisanriku. None of them knew that within several hours their world would be turned upside down... (Screengrab image: via Israel365.com /IDF)

...The waves hit with an unimaginable force, destroying the small wooden homes in its path, leaving behind a long trail of debris and despair…We lost 831 members of our small community, with 70 percent of the buildings razed to the ground. The rest were severely damaged," says Sato. "The industrial area was gone; the municipality building all but disappeared from the face of the earth"...

...An Israel Defense Forces delegation was in the area some two weeks after the waves hit… The government of Japan made any foreign assistance contingent on having the teams bring their own equipment, and Israel was the only country that could meet that requirement on such short notice...  Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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