From a phone call, interrupted, emerged two sides of Japan's most powerful earthquake - Pacific
By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 9, 2021 TOKYO — Former Stars and Stripes journalist Grant Okubo remembers being on the phone with a colleague at Misawa Air Base when bottles started shaking in his home near Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. “It was the longest earthquake I’d ever experienced, but it was the same as a few others,” said Okubo, who was an Army sergeant and photographer for the paper when the quake hit March 11, 2011. “I wasn’t completely shocked.” But the ground kept shaking, those wine and liquor bottles fell off his refrigerator and then...
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