Japanese Survivor Story: 4 month old baby rescued
Helpless in the rubble following the massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the baby girl had survived for three days in the remains of the city of Ishinomaki in the state of Miyagi.
Against the odds, the four-month old was rescued apparently safe and unharmed after being spotted by a member of Japan’s Self-Defense Force.
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When innovation is old-fashioned
washingtonpost.comNobody tweeted or blogged or e-mailed. They didn’t telephone either. Bereft of electricity, gasoline and gas, this tsunami-traumatized town did things the really old-fashioned way — with pen and paper.
Unable to operate its 20th-century printing press — never mind its computers, Web site or 3G mobile phones — the town’s only newspaper, the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, wrote its articles by hand with black felt-tip pens on big sheets of white paper.
But unlike modern media, the method worked.
Read: In Ishinomaki, news comes old-fashioned way: Via paper
