Taylor’s Reading Corner and the Great East Japan earthquake [PDF]

The Great East Japan earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011 along the coastal areas of the Pacific Ocean in northern Japan. The natural disaster caused enormous and severe structural damages and more than 15,000 people lost their lives. A fishing port city called Ishinomaki, in Miyagi prefecture, was one of the cities hit by the earthquake and giant tsunami that followed. The city lost more than 3,000 people. Taylor Anderson, a young American woman, was one of them. Taylor’s Reading Corner, a reading corner named after her, is a reading space for children and young students in schools in Ishinomaki. The small reading corner provides student not only the joy of reading that can open up a new world, but also gives them hope to live on, telling them how important it is to have a dream.