How one man s determination to resurrect a miracle piano helped heal Japan s tsunami scars By Lucy Craft Fukushima, nine years after devastation Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan — Graduation day dawned sunny and beautiful at Toyoma Junior High, and the 47 members of the senior class were in a buoyant mood. Just being at Toyoma Junior High was a day at the beach: The school overlooked Usuiso, one of Japan s most popular strips of seashore, and the giddy mood was captured in a scrawled blackboard message: Thanks for the last three years! It s been fun! In the gym, as teachers, families and classmates looked on, the students in their navy-colored uniforms sang the school song for the last time, accompanied, as always, by Toyoma s fine grand piano.