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After the Great East Japan Earthquake hit the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011, I worked at the Defense Ministry’s Joint Staff Office responsible for unit operations, serving as a liaison between Japan and the United States for Operation Tomodachi, a relief effort undertaken by the U.S. military.
I intuitively felt that the day's disasters, including the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, were collectively the worst crisis since World War II.
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