Mr. Toba said his teachers constantly asked Taiga to remove the shades at school.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
Mr. Toba would take Taiga and Kanato to school every morning at 7:40 a.m.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
So did Taiga, as his father sat a few feet away across the dinner table.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
This is an attempt to understand the lives of ordinary people living in taiga or highlands, in a desert or tundra.
The boys watched a volleyball game on TV, and Taiga waved a flag enthusiastically each time the ball went out of bounds.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
They say another group, the Uman Udege, were forced out of their home 40 years ago by the destruction of the taiga.
Taiga said he tried to forget what happened on March 11.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
When Taiga got the lead role in a play at the middle school, he pleaded with his father to come, even for just a few minutes.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
The scenery, mostly taiga forest, can be monotonous, and there is a handful of worthy stops like the unreal Lake Baikal to break the trip - and to take a real shower.
During dinner late one night, while Mr. Toba relaxed over a Japanese hot pot and local liquor, Taiga stomped around the house in basketball warm-ups and two pairs of eyeglasses one for his eyes and a pair of dark sunglasses perched on his forehead, because he thought they were cool.
WSJ: Ruin and Rebirth: After Disaster, Japanese Mayor Plants Seeds for City's Rebirth
Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.
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