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...There he saw a slim woman pouring tea for quake victims. She looked older than in the photo, but when Tachio showed her the picture, she recognized herself by the striped pajama trousers and black-and-white jacket she had been wearing when the photo was taken. The woman, Emiko Deguchi, 47, a department-store salesclerk, agreed to tell Tachio her story...
...asleep in the two-story wooden house in Nagata that she shared with her mother Yoshie and father Shinichi, both 81, when the quake hit. Emiko and her father were unhurt, but a heavy wardrobe had fallen on Yoshie, pinning the frail old woman to the floor. As fire began roaring through the neighborhood, father and daughter struggled frantically to free her, without success. ``I'm going to stay here,'' her father said, but Emiko pleaded, ``You can't, father. You must live, for mother's sake!'' Emiko pulled him out of the house seconds before it was engulfed...
...Emiko and her father have since stayed at the center for the elderly, helping others displaced by the quake. The Tokyo Shimbun hopes to give them the money it earns from syndicating the picture. Emiko is not yet ready to return to her job. ``I thought about going someplace else to live,'' she told Tachio, ``but now I know I want to go back to the home I was born and brought up in, no matter how long it takes.'' Every day she visits the site of that house to make offerings of bread, oranges and tea in memory...
Japanese Culture Through Dance--bydancers and educators Emiko and Yasuko Tokunaga.Boston Conservatory, 8 The Fenway, Boston.Tuesday, Feb. 18, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.Meetings
...Ounces of Divinity: Rice, the Emperor, and Cosmological Exchange of Self in Japanese Culture--with Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, professor in the University of Wisconsin Department of Anthropology. In the Common Room at 42 Francis...