{"product_id":"memorial-ruins-rikuzentakata-naoya-hatakeyama","title":"Memorial Ruins of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Rikuzentakata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMemorial Ruins of 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Rikuzentakata\u003c\/strong\u003e is a photobook by Naoya Hatakeyama. In summer 2020, at the request of the city hall of his hometown, Rikuzentakata, he photographed four buildings that are being kept as memorials of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Published by Akaaka Art Publishing in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe story behind the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four ruins are the former Takata-Matsubara roadside station, once visited by about 400,000 people a year; Kesen Junior High School, Hatakeyama's own school; a youth hostel where he had friends stay; and a housing block for young families. Ten years after the disaster, their interiors were still packed with mud. They were also, by chance, buildings where no one died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe city plans to restore them for public viewing. These photographs record the interiors before that work, and the book offers them as a record for a long span of time, a door between people's awareness and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotographs of four disaster ruins in Rikuzentakata, shot with a digital camera in 2020\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e160 pages, softcover; text in Japanese and English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout Naoya Hatakeyama\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaoya Hatakeyama is a Japanese photographer from Rikuzentakata, Iwate. His other books on his hometown include Rikuzentakata 2011-2014.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Naoya Hatakeyama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67712492634338,"sku":null,"price":3850.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/9174\/1154\/files\/hatakeyama_rikuzen_cover.jpg?v=1792143849","url":"https:\/\/tenten-inc.jp\/products\/memorial-ruins-rikuzentakata-naoya-hatakeyama","provider":"TENTEN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}