Father Trying to Keep Memories with Children from Being Destroyed by Disaster (2)
Sato’s job is to look for tsunami-damaged vehicles and search their owners by confirming the vehicle numbers printed or carved somewhere inside the car. Vehicle surveyors like Sato confirm whether the owners are willing to abandon their ownership to the vehicles. If this is confirmed, the damaged vehicles will be put up for auction and sold to scrap dealers. Since he began the job in December, his team has processed about 2,000 units.
Vehicles recovered from the sea are assembled at places near the shore. The surveyors regularly check the places where the vehicles are assembled, because the number of vehicles sometimes changes, according to Sato. Somebody brings in a vehicle and somebody comes to pick up one. He sometimes talks with fishermen working on the wharf to collect information about whether there are any deserted vehicles around their workplace.
Some of the vehicles recovered from the sea were found with the drivers’ bodies inside, Sato said. The daughter of a friend of his could not contact her husband, who was a meat shop employee, after the tsunami waves came. Her husband's vehicle was found near the sea a few days later with his seriously damaged body inside.
Sato is sometimes lured into thinking about relocating to a warm place in western Japan after the current job is finished. But he does not consider such plans concretely. Sato believes it will be better to stay in the current place for his family and his job.
Sato’s job is to look for tsunami-damaged vehicles and search their owners by confirming the vehicle numbers printed or carved somewhere inside the car. Vehicle surveyors like Sato confirm whether the owners are willing to abandon their ownership to the vehicles. If this is confirmed, the damaged vehicles will be put up for auction and sold to scrap dealers. Since he began the job in December, his team has processed about 2,000 units.
Vehicles recovered from the sea are assembled at places near the shore. The surveyors regularly check the places where the vehicles are assembled, because the number of vehicles sometimes changes, according to Sato. Somebody brings in a vehicle and somebody comes to pick up one. He sometimes talks with fishermen working on the wharf to collect information about whether there are any deserted vehicles around their workplace.
Some of the vehicles recovered from the sea were found with the drivers’ bodies inside, Sato said. The daughter of a friend of his could not contact her husband, who was a meat shop employee, after the tsunami waves came. Her husband's vehicle was found near the sea a few days later with his seriously damaged body inside.
Sato is sometimes lured into thinking about relocating to a warm place in western Japan after the current job is finished. But he does not consider such plans concretely. Sato believes it will be better to stay in the current place for his family and his job.
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