TSUNAMI JAPAN

• Photographer
  Tadashi Okubo, Japan
• Date of Photograph
  online
• Studio
  The Yomiuri Shimbun
• Website
  http://

Yuko Sugimoto with a blanket stands alone in debris, worries her missing son Raito, 5, and stares submerged day care center in distance that he was attending. Raito spent a night with other children and teachers on roof of the center until coast guard found and rescued them, spent two more nights on patrol boat. Due to damaged infrastructure it took three days for them to find out their whereabouts and to reunite.