Town official risked life to capture crucial moments (JAPAN)

The tsunami surges toward the roof of the three-story disaster management building of the Minami-Sanriku town office, in a photo captured by Nobuo Kato, at 3:34 p.m. on March 11. (Provided by the town of Minami-Sanriku)


MINAMI-SANRIKU, Miyagi Prefecture--Dramatic images have emerged from the massive tsunami of March 11 from a town official who evacuated to the rooftop of a three-story building and kept taking photos until the wall of water engulfed him.

Nobuo Kato, 39, a public relations official in the town of Minami-Sanriku, was swept away immediately after the tsunami swept over the roof.


The disaster management building of Minami-Sanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, destroyed by the tsunami, taken on May 20. (Hideyuki Miura)

Kato's camera did not survive to shoot another photo. Fortunately, Kato did, and his camera's memory card lived to tell the story of those terrifying moments.

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Nobuo Kato (Photo by Hideyuki Miura) Amazing that the Tsunami reached three stories high to wash over the building..This guy was some kinda lucky.

...he was on his way out of this work at least once or twice after being swept off the roof.

Incredible.

PB