Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: March 11 is the anniversary day of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The Hidenori Watanabe Laboratory at Tokyo Metropolitan University (in April 2018, the laboratory transferred to The University of Tokyo) and Iwate Nippo Newspaper worked together to create a digital archive of those who lost their lives in the disaster, mapping their evacuation efforts from when the earthquake struck until the tsunami arrived. This project is a combination of three-dimensional aerial photos and maps which visually represent how people attempted to evacuate based on the detailed locations of 1,326 victims. The families of 687 of the victims consented to showing their loved ones’ names and where they went on that day. The aerial photo layers directly after the disaster and from 1974 to 1978 use tile data from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan.
- Institution/Author: Hidenori Watanabe Laboratory
- Period: Modern
- Geographic Focus: Japan
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎