{"id":1561,"date":"2021-01-17T13:04:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T04:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myendof.life\/?p=721"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:04:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T04:04:28","slug":"20210117-its-that-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mychigasaki.com\/?p=1561","title":{"rendered":"20210117 It&#8217;s that memorial day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s January 17th.<br>I wonder how many people remember 26 years ago (1995) today just before 5:47AM.<br>The great earthquake that shook all of Kansai area to devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" 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controllers when I was still working for Minolta Camera (now Konica-Minolta) and was stationed (long business trip called &#8220;Choki Shuccho&#8221;) in Kobe.<br>Most of our work was done in Kobe and we (my colleagues and I) were to transfer to Toyokawa, Aichi in January, so we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minolta had few development centers for OA equipments. <br>Toyokawa was the main, Atsugi (Kanagawa), and Kobe.<br>I was going back and forth of these 3 places.<br>In January, I was in Toyokawa since the manufacturing plant was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow, I wake up before disasters or alarms.<br>I have that 6th sense that warms me.<br>I woke up about 5:45 that morning.<br>Then about a minute or so, I heard a roaring sound in the ground.<br>I knew something bad was coming and was about to jump out of my bed.<br>Then about 10 seconds later or so, it shook!<br>Luckily, when I was in Toyokawa (about 300Km away from Kobe), it was about a scale of 3 in scesmic intensity scale of Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">https:\/\/www.kobe-np.co.jp\/rentoku\/sinsai\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I went to have my breakfast, the news on the TV did not say much except there was a huge quake in Osaka area.<br>In the late afternoon, I found out what really went on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That day, Kobe development team could not be caught.<br>All lifelines were cut off. <br>Didn&#8217;t know if they were safe or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In that quake, there were over 5000 people that died.<br>Non-Fatal casualties, probably 10 times or even 20 times more.<br>My wife&#8217;s house (I wasn&#8217;t married back then) warped.<br>Many were left homeless since it devastated the whole area.<br>It was snowing and many froze.<br>Houses with &#8220;blue sheet&#8221; to cover holes and cracks on the roof were everywhere.<br>The government 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