←The town office of minami-sanriku after Tsunami

Miki Endo, 25 year old woman in Miyagi who was a town office worker

in an emergency administration department, continued announcing the Tsunami warning

until she too was swallowed and swept away by the 40 feet high flood.

There are still 10,000 people missing out of 17,000 in this town after the earthquakes and Tsunamis. She is one of them.

" Please run, run for the higher place ! " she screamed through the microphone.

She wouldn't have known the three story building of the town office was about to be torn by floods, or she might have known but put her priority on saving other people

in her sight.

" She must have been exerting all her strength to do her job until the end."

Miki's mother told the writer in tears.

One of Miki's colleagues who survived from the floods by holding onto the radio antenna told her mother that he had seen she was being washed away by sea water.

She gave up her hope then.

Ms. Houga, a friend of her mother was driving away from the flood

while she was hearing Miki's voice from the speakers behind.

Being chased by water, finally she outraced and arrived at the shelter.

And she met Miki's mother there.

After a while, she told Mrs Endo,

" I could hear your daughter's voice behind until the building vanished in the flood."

Looking down the town from the hill, there were none but the dark stream.

Japanese article and photo by Hiroshi Higa, Mainichi News paper.

オリジナルの記事はhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20110313-00000032-maip-soci

用語

town office worker 町役場職員

emergency administration department　危機管理課

swallowed　飲み込まれた

swept away (sweep が原形）　流された

torn (tear が原形）　引き裂かれる、壊れる

put priority on　～を優先する

exerting all her strength　力を出し尽くす

colleagues　同僚

she outraced　競争に勝つ、早く着く

vanished　消えた、姿を消した

stream　流れ

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英訳・The voice echoed away in Tsunami