Picking up the Moomins at FilaNippon in Yokohama.
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En route to Sendai, a lot of trucks.
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The event was held at Nobisuku Sendai.
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MORNING SESSION
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Entrance to the event building.
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Hall to the venue
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Master of ceremony Masahiro Kimura of Finpro starts the event.
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FCCJ President Marko Saarelainen makes some remarks and calls in the Moomins..
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The Moomins enter...
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...greeted by chidren and moms.
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Hello!!
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The venue was packed with chirlden and moms, and afew dads as well..
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At least one kid got very excited...
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Little My does the talikng, Moomins do not speak. Kimura-san interprets.
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A local TV crew covered the event.
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Moomin dances.
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Getting crowded.
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Doing the airplane.
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Little My gets airborne from excitement.
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Moomins leave for a short break, they are not dressed for the hot Japanese summer...
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'Jukka Pajarinen from the Embassy of FInland makes a speech, translated by Maki Shoji of Finpro.
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This young Moomin fan (or perhaps her mothers..) had made a fan with text in Finnish saying 'Moomin, I love your from my heart'.
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The Moomin and Little My are back!
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Time for photo shooting!
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Uncle Marko hands out a gift bag
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Juha Teperi of Sendai Finland Wellbeing Center helps out.
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Mrs. Teperi also assists.
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The Moomins leaving the venue after the first session.
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The TV news guy was also a Moomin fan.
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Checking out the content of the bag.
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The content of the bags
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AFTERNOON SESSION
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Kimura-san starts the second session.
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Uncle Marko speaking.
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The Moomins arrive.
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Jukka Pajarinen speaks at the second session.
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Uncle Marko asks some questions from the audience. This your lady wanted to know how old the Moomins are? No-one knew...
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Marko hands out a small present to the head of Nobisuku Sendai for their kind assiatnace to our project.
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Hiroshi Ishikawa of Sendai City also got a present for all the kind assistance we receibved from Sendai City.
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Moomin and Little My return to the stage.
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A large pile of gift bags waiting in the corner.
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The gift bag handout crew. Only a few bags left.
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The orgabizers pose for a photo with the Moomins.
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Little My makes closing remarks assisted by Kimura-san.
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'Moi, moi'
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The event is over.
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SOME IMAGES FROM THE DISASTER AREA ON 3 AUGUST 2011
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To get some perspective to our charity project we went after the event to the Arahama area by the ocean about 10 km from the center of Sendai. Even though most of the rubble has been removed and much of the destruction is now covered with grass, there are still much evidence of the devastating disaster caused by the tsunami. Most of the roads were open, all the way to the ocean, and only a few crews were still working in the area so most of the clearing has been done, but all of the rebuilding remains...
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A 'torii' by the seaside. Unclear if it withstood the tsunami or has been erected afterwards.
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The seawall, that was far too low, and one remaining structure.
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A closed road and mangled gueard rails.
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Unbelievably big piles of rubble collected,
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A blown-out gas station, the tsunami went far above its 5 m. roof.
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Amazingly one house still standing, but badly damabed.
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A severly damaged school building left standing but all remaining, almost as far as the eye can see, of the houses were the pupils used to live are the foundations.
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Severly damaged struturs and more empty foundations.
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More foundations
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A pile of mangled cars.
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A ramen shop that was blown out by the water.
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A fishing boat where it should not be, by the road about 3 km from the water.
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Another fishing boat in wrong place, more than 3 km from the port.
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