A 47-year-old woman from?Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, who survived the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake?when she was pregnant?has felt nothing but gratitude over the past 15 years.
“I can lead a life now because we were saved then,” said Asami Kurihara, whose son, Yuto Kurihara, who just turned 15.
When the earthquake hit, Kurihara, then pregnant with Yuto, became trapped?between pieces of fallen furniture with her then-2-year-old daughter, but they were later rescued.
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