Video: Miraculous salvation. The history of the Japanese pine that will become a monument
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Two years have passed since the earthquake and the subsequent one. tsunamicovering Japan … And this country is still trying to recover from the catastrophe that befell it, to comprehend this event. One of the episodes of this understanding is the transformation into a monument of the so-called "Wonderful pine" - a tree that survived after a rampant disaster. On March 11, 2011, Japan turned into a giant set for a disaster movie. The only difference was that there was no question of any kind of cinema - the misfortune, indeed, overtook this country, bringing enormous destruction and many thousands of human casualties.
One of the small miracles that happened that day was the rescue of a lonely pine tree that survived the tsunami, while seven thousand of its “relatives” standing next to it were uprooted and carried away by the elements.
This pine tree has become a real symbol of Japan, which also survived the disaster and began to reanimate at a rapid pace, in order to ultimately become even stronger and more powerful than before the 2011 Earthquake and its aftermath.
However, over time it became known that the "Wonderful Pine" is under threat of destruction. The tsunami severely salted the groundwater and the plant began to die, absorbing the roots of salt.
So now a huge amount of resources are aimed at prolonging the life of the Miracle Tree, even if investing a lot of money in this - the symbol must continue to exist!
In order to justify the allocation of money for the resuscitation of this pine tree, the Japanese government decided to officially declare it a monument of national importance and to create a memorial around the tree to commemorate the 2011 disaster. The total cost of the work is expected to be 150 million yen, which is equivalent to approximately one and a half million US dollars.
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