On March 11, 2011, a devastating earthquake shook the eastern coast of Japan, triggering massive tsunamis that swallowed up homes and towns and swept thousands of people to their death. In Fukushima prefecture, this was followed by a nuclear meltdown, forcing the entire population in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant there to be evacuated. On the sixth day, as aftershocks continued to rumble and residents battled the fear of a radiation cloud, Fukushima poet Ryoichi Wago [Wago Ryoichi] began tweeting lines of poetry on Twitter. His single-digit group of followers soon grew into tens of thousands.
We asked Wagō to comment on the power of words.
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