August 24, 2012

title-shitenThis past week JCIE staff made another trip to Tohoku to visit a few of the JCIE fund’s grantees and other innovative local recovery efforts. On Friday they visited a Kamaishi Kitchen Car for lunch where Ms. Teiko Haga, whose ramen noodle shop was swept away by the tsunami, has been able to continue offering the same noodles that her father started selling 57 years ago. Locals are comforted by the familiar taste, and seeing them enjoy her noodles and homemade broth gives her the energy to continue with the hopes of eventually reopening a ramen noodle shop and coffee house in town. For more information…