As survivors from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami sat in evacuation centers across Iwate Prefecture on March 19, support came from a surprising source. Amid the steady flow of information from the radio, a children's choir began singing.
The song they sang was called "Sora Yori Takaku (Higher Than the Sky)" and it had been donated to the Iwate Broadcasting Co. (IBC), a local radio station, anonymously.
"After receiving the recording, we decided to broadcast it. We then got requests from listeners telling us that they wanted to hear the children's voices again," IBC director Masafumi Kuchiki says.