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The Documentary: Found in Translation

Found in Translation

08/03/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Found in Translation

How a young Japanese translator Miwako Ozawa met tsunami survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa

How a young Japanese translator Miwako Ozawa met tsunami survivor Hiromitsu Shinkawa.

Sixty-five-year-old Hiromitsu Shinkawa survived the 2011 Tsunami by riding the tin roof of a destroyed home. He spent two days alone and adrift at sea on his makeshift raft before rescue. Shortly afterwards he met Miwako Ozawa, a young Japanese translator hired by a journalist to interview him. Five years on, Hiromitsu’s remarkable story of survival and renewal is told through the two halves of their unlikely friendship.

(Photo: Hiromitsu Shinkawa as crew members of Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) sail to rescue him on 13 March 2011. Credit: JIJI Press/AFP/Getty Images

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