unexpected event

"Hiro, Japan is in big trouble!"

Arakawa, who was working as usual, received a sudden report from a colleague.

March 11, 2011

The Great East Japan Earthquake shocked everyone.

The terrible state of the catastrophe, which caused a large number of deaths and missing people, mainly in the Tohoku region, was a major incident that shocked even London.

I wanted to know more about the news, but I didn't have a smartphone at the time.I heard that the extra edition was being distributed near Piccadilly, so I immediately went to pick it up.

I held my breath and picked up the extra, which contained an incredible story of Arakawa's hometown.

When I saw the pictures of my hometown in the extra issue, I despaired that my parents' house by the sea had definitely been swallowed up by the tsunami.

Is your family safer than that?

I immediately called my parents over and over again, but to no avail.

Maybe he's already dead...

Even though I imagined the worst, I believed and kept calling.

Luckily, I was able to connect with my mother after a few phone calls.

I was relieved to hear that everyone had evacuated and was safe.

However, no one knew the current state of the house.

What will happen to the family life if the house is gone?

I have to go back to Japan as soon as possible and help myself.

When I told him about it, my mother said, 

"I can't do anything because the evacuation life will continue even if I come back now.I'd rather be working in London than come back here."

 They said.

Of course I was worried, but I decided to do what my mother said.I was ready to go home if I needed help.

In the end, a year and a half after the earthquake, I decided to return to Japan when my visa expired.

The earthquake triggered a major change in Arakawa's life plan.

Until then, he gained experience as a tailor and eventually became independent at Savile Row.I was planning my life so that I would spend the rest of my life in my beloved London.However, I chose to return home.

Up until now, Arakawa had pushed forward only in pursuit of what he wanted to do, but once again, he felt powerless and physically anxious about the sudden disaster that had befallen his loved ones. I thought.

attacked myself at that time"I lost everything at once"I could never ignore the turmoil in my heart at the moment when I thought.

Returning to Japan and moving on to the next stage

By the time Arakawa returned to Japan, his parents' lives had returned to normal, and in the end there was no chance for Arakawa to appear.Miraculously, the house was not washed away and only suffered damage from flooding above the floor.

But the land of memories has changed.

The sandy beach that I used to play in when I was a child was eroded by the waves and disappeared, and the only local tourist spot, a small island floating in the sea, changed its shape due to the tsunami and collapse.It tells us that they were a catastrophe that completely changed the natural landscape.

I couldn't help but feel sorrow that I would never be able to see the place that I still have fond memories of.

After returning to Japan, Arakawa wanted to work as a tailor in Japan.However, there are no tailor jobs locally.I had no choice but to go to the city to work as a tailor.

So I left my hometown and aimed to work at a tailor in Tokyo.

In order to earn enough money to go to Tokyo, I decided to work at a local gyudon restaurant.Regardless of day or night, I was able to accumulate the target funds in about 3 months when I was doing one surgery.

Let's go to Tokyo.

We are taking the next step as a tailor.

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