{"id":1031,"date":"2011-07-25T02:44:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T02:59:14","slug":"marchandafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/news\/marchandafter\/","title":{"rendered":"New poetry book raises funds for relief efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>march and after<br \/>\n<em>&#8211; poems from tsunami country &#8211;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>march and after &#8211; poems from tsunami country<\/em> &#8211; chronicles  life in Japan following the 3.11 earthquake. From the terror of hourly  aftershocks and scenes of hardened yakuza fleeing Tokyo, Jon Mitchell  takes the reader through Tohoku\u2019s devastation to the 400-year old shrine  once believed to prevent such catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p>Among this untold  destruction, these poems also explore a side to the disaster rarely  seen. As radiation scares and rolling black-outs buffeted the nation, a  remarkable sense of solidarity emerged that propelled tens of thousands  of ordinary people to volunteer in the heart of the hardest-hit areas.<\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt, the March 11th earthquake was one of the worst moments in Japanese history. But, as the poems in <em>m<\/em><em>arch and after<\/em> show, it was also a time that brought out the very best in many people.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1041\" title=\"marchandafter\" src=\"http:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/marchandafter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/marchandafter.jpg 250w, https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/wp_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/marchandafter-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paperback \/ 40 pages \/ 1000yen<\/strong><br \/>\n100% sales Peace Boat&#8217;s <strong><em>ongoing relief efforts in Tohoku<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonmitchellinjapan.com\/make-contact.html\">here<\/a> to order <\/em><\/strong><em>or <\/em><strong><em>purchase the e-book on Amazon <a title=\"March and After ebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/March-and-After-ebook\/dp\/B005F4328S\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Read a review of the book in the Japan Times <a title=\"Japan Times Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/fb20111009a2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poetry book by Welsh writer based in Yokohama Jon Mitchell has been published this week, with all sales going to support Peace Boat&#8217;s ongoing relief efforts in Tohoku. &#8220;march and after &#8211; poems from tsunami country&#8221; &#8211; chronicles life in Japan following the 3.11 earthquake, and is available in limited edition hard cover and e-book version also. See here for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,39,14,48,35,7,16,92,9,5,91,13,230,18,6,41,20],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-disaster-relief","tag-donations","tag-earthquake","tag-fundraising","tag-international-volunteers","tag-ishinomaki","tag-japan","tag-jon-mitchell","tag-kanto-tohoku-earthquake-and-tsunami","tag-peace-boat","tag-poetry","tag-relief","tag-tohoku","tag-tokyo","tag-volunteer","tag-volunteering","tag-volunteers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7245,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/7245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pbv.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}