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March 11^th 2011, a tremendous earthquake followed by a Tsunami hit East Japan. As a consequence the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility blew up suffering three nuclear meltdowns.
Radiation escaped at life threatening levels.

March 2011, eleven year old Kazuto Taguchi relocated with his mother from Tokyo to Vienna.
2012 he recorded an introductory video for the original SOS platform with us. Ten years later, now a grown man, he opens the SOS website expressing how »Fukushima« affected his life.

March 11^th 2012 the artists Sylvia Eckermann and Edgar Honetschläger in collaboration with Yukika Kudo launched an open call video platform in Japanese and English entitled SOUND OF SIRENS = SOS focusing on how democratic societies deal with catastrophes.
About 140 people from around the globe submitted films.

As 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the disaster we have decided to make the videos available again since the entries from back then prove to be a treasure of today - deeply moving and disturbing descriptions of the reality at the location in 2011, of the very moments when the earthquake hit Tokyo, of people’s personal fate, of destruction and unfathomable pain. Striking how some of the images revoke our current Covid crises.