Nearly three months after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s northeastern coast, survivors are beginning to imagine a better future.They are reopening family businesses, planting trees and clearing the debris and sludge from devastated homes. They’re also finding ways to heal themselves and their neighbors, and looking for moments of normalcy amid the ruins. The dual disaster left 15,000 dead, 8,500 missing and more than 100,000 homeless.Msnbc.com reporter Miranda Leitsinger and multimedia producer Jim Seida are traveling to Japan to chronicle the early moments of this ravaged region’s rebirth, and to meet some of the people who are leading the recovery in small ways – a father-son team who have restarted the family’s electrical construction business from the back of a truck, a woman who runs a nonprofit for disabled kids and members of a children’s jazz ensemble.Looking for signs of rebirth on Japan's battered coast
Nearly three months after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan’s northeastern coast, survivors are beginning to imagine a better future.They are reopening family businesses, planting trees and clearing the debris and sludge from devastated homes. They’re also finding ways to heal themselves and their neighbors, and looking for moments of normalcy amid the ruins. The dual disaster left 15,000 dead, 8,500 missing and more than 100,000 homeless.Msnbc.com reporter Miranda Leitsinger and multimedia producer Jim Seida are traveling to Japan to chronicle the early moments of this ravaged region’s rebirth, and to meet some of the people who are leading the recovery in small ways – a father-son team who have restarted the family’s electrical construction business from the back of a truck, a woman who runs a nonprofit for disabled kids and members of a children’s jazz ensemble.
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