Yet another article on the Japanese tsunami disaster... at a loss of words._________
(...) Futoshi Toba, the town’s 46-year-old mayor, is among them. On that Friday afternoon, he huddled on the third-floor roof of city hall as the wave crashed over the building and erased virtually everything else in sight, including his home.
“I lost my wife,” he said in a conversation at the makeshift emergency center in the hills outside town, then quietly added, “Maybe.”
The official statistics issued here on Monday afternoon stated that the tsunami had killed 775 people in Rikuzentakata and left 1,700 missing. In truth, a trip through the waist-high rubble, a field of broken concrete, smashed wood and mangled autos a mile long and perhaps a half-mile wide, leaves little doubt that “missing” is a euphemism. (...)
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