A museum that aims to pass down lessons learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and its aftermath will induct Saturday three young survivors into its ranks of storytellers.
The young women, who all work at the Great East Japan Earthquake and Nuclear Disaster Memorial Museum in Fukushima Prefecture, were elementary school students when the quake occurred.
Appearing in a press event on Sunday, the trio told reporters of the fear they felt when fleeing the tsunami, the frustration of being unable to search for missing family members in the wake of the nuclear disaster.
"We can give information about the earthquake from a child's perspective. We'd like to tell everyone exactly what happened the way we saw it," said Wakana Yokoyama, 22, who hails from the town of Namie in the prefecture.
All of the 26 storytellers currently registered with the facility are aged 50 or older.
"It's important that [the three] speak from a viewpoint that's closer to the younger generations who don't know of the disaster," said Nagasaki University Prof. Noboru Takamura, who serves as the head of the museum.
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