Ms. AB (a woman in her 60’s) A.Bさん (６０代）

March 2, 2014 After three years passed since the disaster, I just began to be able to have hope. When I learned my son (40’s) had a desire to take over our oyster farming business and open a coffee shop during the summer time, I could have a positive feeling. I had been in the state of mind where I couldn’t feel, see or think about any future. But my son’s words made me change. Before the disaster, we were running a bed and breakfast in our stone warehouse what had been renovated. This was our dream of long years. We were practicing green and blue tourism. Conservation issues and protection of nature were our biggest interest and we had many dreams. We’ve offered various workshops and tours by utilizing mountains, rivers and ocean such as fishing and oyster farming experience, crafting with sea shells and fishing nets, walking through the mountain, etc. We also cooked and served to customers what my husband brought back from the sea and ate and talked with them. My husband’s trade was a fisherman and oyster farming. Tsunami destroyed our bed and breakfast, and my husband lost equipment and machinery for the farming, a fishing boat, everything. We moved to temporary housing. After the disaster, my husband was hospitalized for brain infarction and mother passed away. My husband is working very hard now believing in himself “not to be defeated”. He goes out to the ocean from early morning, fishes with a new boat and started farming oysters again. My son’s desire is making us move forward.