The tsunami stones are warnings across generations, telling descendants to avoid the same suffering of their ancestors,' Itoko Kitahara,
a specialist in natural disasters at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, told the New York Times.
It was a tsunami in 1896 which killed 22,000 people that first convinced the people of Aneyoshi to move to their hilltop retreat and remain there.
After a period of stability the population renewed itself and slowly began moving back down the hill towards the coast,
but a then in 1933 another tsunami struck and left four survivors.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379242/Japan-tsunami-Mystic-stone-tides-highest-point-saved-Aneyoshi-deadly-wave.html#ixzz1mTsGK4DT
a specialist in natural disasters at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, told the New York Times.
It was a tsunami in 1896 which killed 22,000 people that first convinced the people of Aneyoshi to move to their hilltop retreat and remain there.
After a period of stability the population renewed itself and slowly began moving back down the hill towards the coast,
but a then in 1933 another tsunami struck and left four survivors.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1379242/Japan-tsunami-Mystic-stone-tides-highest-point-saved-Aneyoshi-deadly-wave.html#ixzz1mTsGK4DT