Yogan Baum

The Voice of Fukushima: A Cry From The Heart - Ground Zero 01: Earthquake (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a burning flame. "A Cry From The Heart" is what the author needs to share with all of you who care about the future. Wake up! he says, Fukushima is only the tip of the iceberg.

Yogan Baum, no longer a stranger in his adopted country, lived through the catastrophic events of March 11, 2011. He still works out of the cozy old house his wife Mariko has made their home over the last thirty years: but, oh, life has changed. The place is Yotsukura, Fukushima. A sleepy little village of recently laid-up fishermen twenty miles from the terminally ruined Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Having set the stage in loving detail in Ground Zero 01: Earthquake - part one of ebook serial The Voice of FUKUSHIMA: A Cry from the Heart - the author relives the traumatic experience of the M9.0 Tohoku earthquake that shook and shattered his world. First it sent him running. Then it sent him packing. Awed by the intensity of the event he is unaware of its consequences.

The book deals with all the pertinent questions: it is the survivor's "Fukushima" in a nutshell. A dense fabric of memories and reflections woven across steel bars in trying to heal a trauma.

Read and learn about how the author struggles in the face of the big, fat lie they call "FUKUSHIMA". A self perpetuating lie spawned by the industrial-political complex and made viable by the complacent media of this beautiful, suffering country that deserves so much better.

Nine years after 3/11 Fukushima is a festering wound everybody wants to forget about. People live their lives in the shadow of a ruined dream: this author is one of them. He suffers but fights. He tries to get down to the truth as he keeps track of the years after THAT DAY.

His only weapon are the words you will find in this book you are so graciously looking into. Will they win you over?

Just like the earthquake was only a prelude to trouble, Ground Zero 01: Earthquake is only a prolog to a chain reaction of fateful traumatic events in the weeks, months and years to come which will be covered in the next episodes of this book serial.

The Voice of FUKUSHIMA: A Cry from the Heart continues with those releases:
Ground Zero 02: Tsunami and Worse
Ground Zero 03: Home but Home no More

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yogan Baum
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310812231
• Artikelnr.: 48613793

Autorenporträt

"What brought you here?" is a question Yogan Baum was asked hundreds of times over the years. "Well," he used to say, "the train, mainly,": which is not untrue. After a weeklong ride on the famed Moscow Peking Express of 1984, he rolled through China some more, went up in the air for the second time in his life, reached Hong Kong, and took to the air again. He saw Philippine palm trees out of an oval window, and there he was in Japan. The immigration officer looked into his wallet, then at his naivety, in despair and stamped his passport: "Welcome to Japan!"

The friendly Narita information girl, "moshi moshi," charmed him and the green scented tatami in his hotel room made him feel at home instantly. He had arrived.

What made Yogan leave his own country, then? Was it a love of traveling? When he was a child, he spent many happy hours exploring maps. He loved the deep brown highlands of South America and, before all else, Tibet. Not Japan. Later on, India was his dream destination something made him veer off course, and so he did not reach Bombay but Iwaki, Japan, instead. Was it Tony Scott and Hozan Yamamoto's "Music for Zen Meditation and Other Joys" that hooked him? The magic of the Shakuhachi he could not resist. It conjured up pictures of a rural hillside in autumn, wind rustling in leaves and mist rising from the valley. Yogan felt at peace. He felt at ease in the eerily spine chilling strains of these strange sounds.

Did he find that hillside, then? That peace? As for that hillside, Yogan hasn¿t found it yet. Could it be his present state of being in limbo, between loss and hope, will lead him towards the light he once had a glimpse of, in a lost world far, far west of here?

Not a hillside in autumn a family was what he found in Japan! A wife. Children. A whole, new, unexpected, wonderful life! He worked hard and learned to be a husband and a father. Their life in the small fishing port of Yotsukura, Iwaki City, was as happy as could be. People were good to them, and they tried their best to be responsible. All foreigners are outsiders, yes, but being on the outside of things has its advantages, too. Opening his soul to the near vastness of the Pacific Ocean and the night stars high above gave him space to breathe: there was nothing much he missed.

Life changed dramatically on and after March 11, 2011. Fortunately, Yogan and his wife Mariko were spared in many ways. The megaquake did not brea...