Okawa Elementary School

ISHINOMAKI: Two years on, firefighters still...
Two years on, some areas look like the disaster hit only yesterday. Firefighters use rakes to search for human remains and personal belongings in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2013. (Masaru Komiyaji)
March 11, 2013
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--On the morning of March 10, about 300 local firefighters were pushing rakes as they searched for human remains near the mouth of the Kitakamigawa ...
Parents spreading mother leaf plant left behind by...
Takahiro and Sayomi Shito look fondly upon the leaves they have raised from the mother leaf given to them by their daughter, Chisato. (Shunichi Kawabata)
December 31, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—Days before last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami, Chisato Shito gave her mother a final gift.
Elementary graduation ceremony remembers children...
Takahiro Shito, father of Chisato Shito who was killed by tsunami last year, holds her picture before the graduation ceremony of her class at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 17. With Takahiro are Chisato's elder sister Tomoka and her mother Sayomi. (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
March 17, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--Parents of children killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake held portraits of their offspring at Okawa Elementary School’s graduation...
National mourning in pictures
Mourners pray in the destroyed building of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 11. (Masaru Komiyaji)
March 12, 2012
Sirens wailed, bells tolled and tears flowed across Japan at 2:46 p.m. on March 11, as the nation mourned victims on the one-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
REMEMBERING 3/11: Boy's photos allow him to return...
Tetsuya Tadano and his father, Hideaki, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 1 (Masaru Komiyaji)
March 07, 2012
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture--The weather had warmed up a bit on March 1, but Tetsuya Tadano decides to remain comfortably seated at a “kotatsu” (foot warmer table)...
Statue unveiled at tragedy-hit school
Kazutoshi Ogata, left, and his family visit the statue at Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where his son Ryusei and daughter Karen were killed by the March 11 tsunami. (Satoru Sekiguchi)
October 24, 2011
ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture -- A granite statue of a mother and child was unveiled Oct. 23 at Okawa Elementary School, which lost 84 pupils and teachers in tsunami triggered...
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