“Are you OK? I want to go home.” These were the last words Yasuo Takamatsu heard from his wife, Yuko, whom he has been searching for relentlessly ever since she was lost forever to the waters of the 2011 tsunami that ravaged Japan.
First on land and then on sea, he’s gone diving every week for the past 13 years, hoping to get some closure and be able to honor the remains of his lost loved one.
The man was in the next town visiting his mother-in-law, who was hospitalized when the disaster hit. Due to the extent of the destruction, which resulted in over 450,000 families losing their homes, Takamatsu couldn’t return to look for his wife.
