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Submitted by Aska on Saturday, 01 June 2013  Page Views: 6336

EventsSite Name: Minamisanriku replica Moai statues Alternative Name: 南三陸モアイ
Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 2.419 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Honshū Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Minamisanriku-chō (Miyagi pref.)  Nearest Village: Shizukawa 志津川
Latitude: 38.677360N  Longitude: 141.448260E
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Minamisanriku replica Moai statue
Minamisanriku replica Moai statue submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan 38.68612N,141.44019E, the position when the shopping street was temporary built in inner area. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A new replica Moai (a giant human sculpture from Easter Island in Chile) is being unveiled in the small Japanese fishing town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, more than 10,000 kilometers away from the famous sculptures’ original home.

The statue was hand made by Rapa Nui sculptors from Easter Island and is a gift of the Chilean government to the town, in a gesture of hope and encouragement as the north eastern village rebuilds from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated it.

The Moai statue is the town’s second – the first one marked the odd but touching connection between Chile and this small Japanese fishing town. In 1960, an earthquake that struck the South American nation sent waves across the Pacific Ocean and caused a tsunami that slammed into Japan’s coast, killing 142 people in Minamisanriku after a 22-hour journey across the ocean. When the Chilean government heard of this, they sent over the first Moai statue to mark the disastrous connection and the future cooperation between the Japanese town and the South American nation’s government.

Unfortunately, the previous statue was destroyed by the 20-meter high tsunami in 2011. This new statue is a symbol of Chile’s efforts to keep the connection alive.

Read more at Japan Daily Press. WIth thanks to Aska for the information.
Official site of the MinamiSanriku SunSun Shopping Street where the replica Moai is placed.
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Minamisanriku replica Moai statues
Minamisanriku replica Moai statues submitted by Aska : Site in Honshū Japan
Re-placed in 2018 following the relocation of the shopping street in 2017. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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A new Moai replica sent to a tsunami town from the Chilean government by Andy B on Saturday, 01 June 2013
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In 1991, the Chile government had sent a Moai replica to Minami-Sanriku(南三陸) town, Shizugawa(志津川) town before the town-merging in 2005, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Great Chilean Earthquake whose tsunami reached this area and killed 41 persons in this town.

Again in 2011, the town was attacked by the enormous tsunami which swallowed 800 citizens along with a young lady employee whose voice urged the citizens to escape to higher places through the announcement from the drowning town's disaster warning office.
The Moai replica was also destroyed and its head was found in the debris on the shore. The students of Shizagawa High School hoped to secure their friendly Moai from the chaos, the town office and an industry placed it in the garden of the high school in November of that year.

In March 2012, the cruel anniversary, president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, visited the town and the high school, and promised to send another Maoi to the town. The new Moai was shipped from Chile in November of that year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtdVaRcsX5o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn-LIaEjyDQ

After the presentation in Ōsaka and Tōkyō, the Moai was placed on the shopping street in an evacuation camp in the town with new eyes on 25th May. In the future, when the town captures the stability and the ordinariness, this Moai is to be moved its own permanent settlement.

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