Ishinomaki’s Manga Street Apparently Restored
As part of an article on various locales in Japan that have partly recovered from the devastating earthquake and tsunami March 11, the Telegraph notes that Ishinomaki is among the early success stories. Ishinomaki offers up a main thoroughfare apparently called "Manga Street" and the Ishinomori Manga Museum right along the river, devoted to the late Shotaro Ishinomori of Kamen Rider and Cyborg 009 fame. Both the street and the museum took a huge hit on March 11; while progress on the museum itself remains unreported, the street seems to have rallied to some semblance of its former glory, maybe minus a couple of statues that were washed away or otherwise damaged. That's good news, as the town apparently counts on the museum and those various outside features for a significant chunk of its tourism economy.
