. >> reporter: professor sachie miyabayshi is a leader of grief care in japan. she started holding seminars in the disaster area. miyabayashi listens to every word of the survivor. >> translator: you've been trying really hard. don't rush. take your time. >> reporter: the professor began studying grief care to face her own sorrow, when her husband died of cancer 12 years ago, she suffered from both mental and physical disorders, but she couldn't find any help in japan. miyayashi experienced the full force of the quake, and she can't live in her home because of the nuclear accident. the professor decided to visit the tsunami devastated town of onagawa. she plans to give grief care sessions for local professionals such as nurses and teachers. the almost 20-meter-high tsunami reached the first floor of the hospital, which sits on a 16-meter hill. >> translator: cars are still scattered around everywhere. a lot of bodies have been found as well. >> reporter: miyabayashi discovered the situation was more serious than she had expected. this made her realize the need f

sachy, it's me matzu, let me help you. i thought i died and went to the other wonder. matzu? spilling up from the leaves like a wounded animal. i forgot everything even the shame of allowing him to see me. he began to laugh is that you or the fox cot. it was the first time he joked with me he had been so quiet. it wasn't the time for laughter i was tired and hungry if i had been the god i might have been made food and water appear. it was my good fortunate that matzu found me. i had been looking for you all night. are there others? i could barely get the words out. they think you have gone to a better world how do you find me. he smaled. he opened [inaudible] and took out a bottle of green tea. the tea tasted cold and bitter i had never been more aggressively for anything else in my life. he brought rice cakes and dried seaweed. when i finished i bowed and asked, how do you know i was here? tomoko. what about tomoko i asked? matzu gathered the food and wrapped it up. i followed you and the others down to the beach yesterday morning. i wondered if you might find your way to pe

when sachy goes up to the village. the leper lady when she starts telling him the story her voice come in. i thought to myself, thank god. i could write a section in her voice and not only be in his voice. those things don't come until you need to work them out. that stumped me for awhile and came to with when she and the other villagers who contract lepercy decide to kill themselves to not bring shame to the village. and she can't do it. the man servant who's story that steven slowly finds out rescues her. >> even now i feel the cold waves pushing and pulling against my legs as a stood knee deep in the ocean. there was a flock of birds flying over head. their voices leading us on. as the water lapped around me i saw a man the father of a school friend walk straight into the ocean he never turned back. one moment he was there and in the next he was swaulode by the sea. one woman took a knife and slashed her wrists. i remember how the bloodstreamed down her arms. she turned toward me with a strange smile handed me her k