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Father erects statue for daughter missing since 2011 tsunami
By TAKAYUKI KIHARA/ Staff Writer
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture—Since Norio Kimura cannot be with his youngest daughter, who was swept away by the tsunami of March 11, 2011, he has erected a small stone deity on a hillside to watch over her and keep her company forever.
Yuna was a first-grader at elementary school and was 7 years old. She was washed away by the wall of waves near her home after she returned from school.
Yuna is one of the 208 people who remain unaccounted for in Fukushima Prefecture, two years and five months after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.
The image of the Jizo guardian deity of children was erected on July 31, ahead of the third Bon holiday season since the disaster.
It stands on a wooded hillside in a coastal area of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, 3.5 kilometers south of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
more..http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ201308110036