Children Of The Tsunami: Documentary Analysis

The 2011 Tohoku Pacific Coast Earthquake or more commonly referred as the ‘3/11’ disaster; first began as an undersea earthquake, off the coast of Miyagi prefecture. Then, the submarine earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0, transformed to a 15-meter tsunami waves (Akira, 2013). In the blink of an eye, the east coast of Japan, especially Sendai was engulfed by the massive tsunami waves, and led to the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi and the Fukushima Daiini nuclear power plants.

In the documentary – Children of the Tsunami directed by Dan Reed (2012), it provides a glimpse into the life of the younger victims, the children, who survived the triple chain disasters and how their lives were impacted. It is record on the ‘03/11’ disaster, narrated through the eyes of the children. The documentary demonstrates how the tsunami has destroyed the children’s schools, playgrounds and home, where happy memories were created before March 11th, 2011. Now, these places were deserted, covered with debris and home to many wild plants. They also serve as a sad reminder to the victims.

The children who were evacuated in the exclusion zone, all of them were issued nuclear level measuring
Ayaka’s father ultimately turned to online shopping platform and bought a radiation-measuring device from Ukraine, so that he could check the radiation readings on his own. Kosei added that his father is skeptic over the information relayed on television; his father will yell ‘It’s a lie’, whenever news on the nuclear disaster are broadcasted. Furthermore, the documentary pointed out that local Japanese residents had avoided drinking tap water and buying products from Fukushima, as they believed that radioactive substances had contaminated the local products and