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THE ROSE GARDEN

 

Katsuhide “Katz” Okada fell in love with roses at the age of seventeen, then devoted the next fifty years to creating the Futaba Rose Garden that boasted over 750 rose varieties and which welcomed over 50,000 visitors a year. 

 

That is until the explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Plant on March 11, 2011 rendered it off-limits for the rest of his life. Forced to abandon his beloved Garden and his dream, Okada’s heart was inconsolable until one day, he receives a letter from one of the photographers that visited his Garden every year.

 

The stunning photographs, taken before and after the disaster that depict the dream of one man created over half a century then cruelly taken away, speak for all lives and livelihoods lost in the tragic events of the Great Tohoku Earthquake that devastated so much of northern Japan.

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