Tokyo Skytree lighting highlights the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake

A teenager behind the special lighting design on display on Tokyo Skytree, one of the highlights of this year’s re-arranged Olympic and Paralympic preparations, hopes the lighting will stop the memory of the Great East Japan Earthquake “fading away”.

Karen Michigami was only 10 years old when her colorful pattern, called “Meika”, was chosen from among the entries made by school children to light up the second tallest building in the world in 2014.

Since then, Michigami’s design has been used to light the tower on March 11 to express sympathy for recovery efforts in the areas struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 16,000 people.

Disaster recovery has been incorporated by Tokyo 2020 as one of the main principles underlying the host nations of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Michigami, 18, believes it’s important for people to remember what happened on March 11, 2011 and hopes her lighting design will keep the memory alive.

“I think it was an honor for me that it was shown from the first time when I was a fifth grader in elementary school until now,” said Michigami.

Tokyo Skytree is the tallest tower in Japan, and it really catches the eye.

“I hope all people will see the lighting that I designed and think about the number of years that have passed (since the earthquake), and that way, keep the memory of that time from fading.

“I go to integrated high school, so I often interact with middle school students even since I was in high school.

“The situation now is that first-year middle school children were babies at the time of the earthquake, so they don’t remember this experience.

“Talking to these middle school students really gives me a sense of the time that has been since the earthquake.

“Having already had an earthquake, I thought how anxious it is to forget things like how terrifying it is, and the things you need to do when that kind of time comes.

“It’s a frightening idea to gradually lose myself this sense of how terrifying it is, and for a lot of people to forget about earthquakes as well.”

Consisting of five lighting patterns, the design aims to evoke a sense of refreshment by likening disaster-stricken Japan to a flower that withers but leaves behind seeds for it to bloom again.

Michigim also installed a tape covered with written desires on the W1SH RIBBON memorial installed on the roof of Tokyo Skytree.

“I see [the Tokyo Skytree] Just because it’s so close, and when I see it lit in different ways, I wonder what meaning it should have, “Michigami added.

“ It’s hard to describe in words, but despite its familiar presence, it makes me think about societal conditions like coronavirus or earthquakes.

“I think it’s close and familiar but broadly a sense of things.”

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