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Sendai City, Natori City

Photographed on 4/20/2011

There are many cars lined up aside to clear the runaway around the Sendai Airport that re-opened few days ago.
数日前に開港した仙台空港の周りには、滑走路を空けるために端に寄せられた車が延々と並んでいた。

Standing nearby, vehicles tell the brutal ruin of the earthquake.
車に近づいてみると、凄まじいまでの破壊の様子を窺える。

The airport was re-opened immediately but areas around the airport are still untouched.
早々に空港は開港したが、その周りは未だ全く手が着いていない。

Thorough the after mass of title wave that came to inland several kilometers from the coast line, you can see SENDAI City and the mountains.
海岸から数kmに渡って押し寄せた津波の痕跡。その向こうに仙台市街地と山々が見渡せた。

Once it was said to be indestructible, the bank is lying around as just wrecks.
屈強なはずだった堤防も、いまはただの残骸となって横たわる。

Everything was swept away except the gates of few houses in the residential area near the eastern beach of the airport.
空港の東の浜に近い住宅地は何軒かの門だけを残して全て何もかもを失った。

Numerous wrecked fish boats were washed ashore on the beach.
浜には何隻もの漁船の残骸が打ち上げられている。

One could not help sensing POSEIDON’s merciless will in never ending flooded plain field.
どこまでも続く冠水した平野に海の神の無情を感じた。

An enormous amount of rubble was collected in the transfer station.
途方もない量の瓦礫が集積場に集められていた。

Past through destroyed fish boat near the coast by the SENDAI Airport, you can see the Hara town thermal power plant far away in Fukushima Prefecture.
仙台空港そばの海岸に横たわる壊れた漁船。はるか遠くに福島県の原町火力発電所が見える。

Title wave coming over the palm tree forest gobbled greenhouses, plantation and houses,
ビニールハウスを、田畑を、そして住宅を松林の向こうから来た津波が飲み込んだ。