10 years from the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
- 02 March 2021
- 12:00pm-1:00pm (GMT)
- Online
- https://dajf.org.uk/event/10-years-from-the-tohoku-earthquake-and-tsunami
- events@dajf.org.uk
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On 11 March 2011 Japan experienced the Tohoku Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country. The quake was followed by a massive 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of north-east Japan. The tsunami wiped out many coastal communities, dragging houses, cars, trees and people on its way. This natural disaster resulted in the greatest loss of life Japan has suffered from a single event since the end of World War II.
In this webinar, British journalists Jon Snow and Richard Lloyd Parry will talk about their different experiences reporting the tragedy, describing the impact of the disaster as they witnessed it on the ground.
Date: Tuesday 2 March 2021
UK Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm (GMT)
Japan Time: 9:00pm-10:00pm (GMT+9)
About the contributors
Jon Snow is a presenter for Channel 4 News. He joined ITN in 1976, reporting from Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He served as Washington Correspondent from 1983-1987, Diplomatic Correspondent from 1987-1989, and has been the main anchor of Channel 4 News since 1989. He reported the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda; the Revolution in Iran; the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the release of Nelson Mandela; earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti; the elections of Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, and Hassan Rouhani’s victory in 2013; Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. He was awarded a BAFTA Fellowship in 2015, and has won the Royal Television Society’s Presenter of the Year award five times.
Richard Lloyd Parry is the Asia Editor of The Times, and has lived in Tokyo since 1995. He has reported from thirty countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, and North Korea. His books include In the Time of Madness, about the fall of the Suharto regime in Indonesia, People Who Eat Darkness, about a young British woman who went missing in Japan in 2000, and Ghosts of the Tsunami, an account of the Great East Japan Disaster in 2011. He has been named the UK’s Foreign Correspondent of the Year. Ghosts of the Tsunami won the Rathbones Folio Prize for literature in 2018.
