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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): ..... Monday marks two years since a devastating tsunami hit Japan. We take a look back through the words of a writer.
Gretel Ehrlich is best known for her nature and travel writing. She's authored 13 books, including three of poetry.
It was the most powerful earthquake ever to hit Japan, triggering a tsunami that reached over 130 feet, taking close to 16,000 lives and causing the meltdown of three nuclear reactors, a disaster of epic proportions.
Beginning in the 1960s, Gretel Ehrlich began visiting Japan regularly to study and write about its culture, its religion -- she's a practicing Buddhist -- and its literature. Soon after the tsunami, she returned for the first of three trips to document the physical and emotional aftermath.
Watch Reflections on the Japanese Tsunami, Two Years Later on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
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