A man whose wife was lost in japan's 2011 tsunami still goes diving every week in hope of finding her body
Almost 15 years later...
I am currently enjoying some time with my family… This is why there is not much from my side. But still, here’s a story I stumbled upon the other day and I thought it was worth sharing…
Yasuo Takamatsu has spent more than 10 years looking for his wife Yuko's remains in order to lay her to rest. The search began after the Japan tsunami in 2011 which affected the area of Fukushima.
Now in the years since, Takamatsu dives weekly and has done for over a decade to see if he can find her body.
Despite various searches, there has been little other clue of where Yuko's body could be but Takamatsu holds out hope
After searching on land for two and a half years, the then-56-year-old started taking diving lessons in September 2013. While he didn't find learning to dive easy, the devoted husband has explained that he's motivated by wanting to find her body
Takamatsu dives alongside the help of a diving instructor, Masayoshi Takahashi. Takahashi leads volunteer dives to look for missing tsunami victims and has been helping Takamatsu
In an interview for short film 'The Diver', Takamatsu explained: "I do want to find her, but I also feel that she may never be discovered as the ocean is way too vast - but I have to keep looking.
May she rest in peace…
And that´s most likely the point why he is still trying to find her.
Traditional japanese burial customs need the body or remains to be buried properly in a family grave/shrine.
Some believe that otherwhise the spirit of the deceased won´t find peace / can move on to the afterlife / be reborn. That´s a complex matter on it´s own I´ve yet to understand.
So this is maybe a try to get closure on this matter.
Yep, and exactly here is the issue. It won’t be possible to recover her body in any sort after staying 14 years in the ocean...
But at least she has an eternal home in her husband's heart…
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Poignant and beautiful story
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