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ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT GREAT TOHOKU CATACLYSM

  This Regent Seven Seas Explorer trip was memorable, but certainly not as meaningful as others I've had.  For nostalgic Tuesday, I return again to that once-in-a-lifetime adventure I had around the time of the 11March2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake because, save for that cruise itself, was somewhat similar in location.    I left Honolulu on March 1, 2011 for Bangkok .   I did not get home until April 10, so the length was similar to my recent trip.   On the final day in Tokyo  I felt several serious tremors, one around 7.1, which no doubt was more intense than 95% of you have ever experienced.  A couple of days earlier I  wrote an article for the  Huffington Post  on a similar earthquake .  I did visit Shinjuku Park that final day, for this would be a night flight. The trip was so monumental that I had two summaries.  First:   GRAND SUMMARY OF THE ORIENT:  SPRING 2011 .   The   Great Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Catastrophe   occurred on 11March2011, the eighth day of my tr