Olympic soccer hopeful Jun Endo remembers shivering uncontrollably as she watched on TV as Japan beat the United States in the FIFA Women's World Cup final in July 2011.
The match took place just four months after she experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster as a fourth grader living in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, and Endo remembers telling herself she was "definitely going there" one day as a member of the national team.
Endo was in the locker room after gym class when the powerful earthquake struck. Almost all the windows at the school smashed and the ground in the schoolyard split open.