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Are you OK?
I want to go home.
The man was in the next town visiting his mother-in-law, who was hospitalized when the disaster hit.
His fears only grew in the coming days as the numbers of dead and missing people were reported.
Over 18,000 had lost their lives, 2,500 were missing, and their bodies were never found.
Yuko was among them.
Soon, a massive 7.1 magnitude tremor forced her to run to safety.
It was thesecond-most costly disasterin history after Chernobyl in 1986.
He discovered that Yuko had written another message, but she dropped the phone before she could send it.
It read: The tsunami is disastrous.
The short text gave him hope, as it was written at 3:25 pm local time.
There was no other trace of her, and authorities couldnt find any more clues.
For the husband, this meant that Yuko could still be hiding somewhere, waiting to be found.
The couple got married in 1988.
The resulting production, titledThe Diver, was released in March 2023.
Anderson first encountered the story in 2016 after reading numerous articles about Takamatsu.
He aimed to capture all of it through a visually compelling narrative.
Readers were moved to know the man is still searching for his wife to date.
We all have our reason for waking up every morning.
This is his reason, one reader reflected.
This is so sad, you’re able to tell how much he loves her.
She must have loved him just as much.
One can only hope to find a love this strong, a user expressed.
This is one of the most heartbreaking stories Ive read in such a long time, said another.
He will keep going until the right time comes for him, and theyll be together forever once again.
