foto giappone tsunami – 11

FILE – In this March 20, 2011 file photo, a woman stands in a line with cars for gasoline in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami-stricken city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The cherry trees will soon blossom in Japan. Even in normal times, the flowers are a cause for rejoicing tinged with sadness, because they fall at the moment of their greatest beauty. They are the embodiment of a notion that is central to Japanese culture – “hakanasa,” a hard-to-translate word that conveys the fragility, or evanescence, of life. In this time of national grieving, the cherry blossoms will bring home the awareness of hakanasa with a strange kind of force, one that doesn’t strike but sinks into the soul like heat from a hot spring or fire from a sake bottle, bringing sorrow and solace in equal measure. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)Only Italy