NYT ran a very moving piece on grief, family, and the Tohoku earthquake/tsunami http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/magazine/the-lost-ones.html …
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Among many details: the anecdote about the cell phone provider which cloned the phone of a lost child so parents could keep texting her.
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In the middle of a very tragic situation, there were a lot of small moments of grace like that.
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Two from Ogaki (which, like most of Japan, was unaffected by the disaster per se and mostly experienced it vicariously):
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My bank called me at 9:01 AM on Saturday the day after, took notice of the fact that my balance was low, and offered no-interest no-doc loan
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Manager: "I know you do business in Tokyo and you or your customers might be affected. If you need it, come by. We have money. We can sort
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out the numbers later." (My recollection of the direct quote was 細かい数字は後でいいから which has connotation "Who would care at time like this.")
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A landlord, who had not distinguished themselves in their degree of enthusiasm for dealing with foreign tenants, called about a deposit.
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(Landlords do not, ahem, make a common practice of returning deposits willingly here.) "I know we're two weeks late on getting you deposit."
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"I'm sorry -- we expect the office and bank to be a madhouse on Monday. I can drive to your new apartment to hand you deposit in cash. Now."
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these stories are really awesome, thanks for sharing
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