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It’s been a decade since Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife Yuko when a devastating tsunami hit the town of Onagawa, in Miyagi prefecture, but he continues to search for her every week.

On the day that Yuko disappeared, in 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu received one last text message from her. It read “Are you ok? I want to go home.” He has been looking for her ever since, and doesn’t plant to stop until he finds her.

 In the beginning, the grieving husband searched for Yuko on land, starting at the bank where she was last seen, then along the beaches of Onagawa, in nearby forests and mountains. Two years after her disappearance, Yasuo contacted the local dive shop asking for diving lessons, so he could start searching for her in the sea. He has been going on weekly dives for the past seven and a half years, racking up almost 500 underwater searches.

He has been keeping track of Yasuo’s searches, recording what areas he has combed, what depth he has dived to, the shape of each search and more. Despite their combined efforts, no clue of Yuko’s fate has been found.

“I’m always thinking that she may be somewhere nearby,” Yasuo recently told a local news publication, adding that  he will keep searching for his wife as long as his body moves.

Apart from his weekly dives, the 64-year-old also joins local authorities in underwater searches for the 2,500 people who remain unaccounted for following the 2011 tsunami.

Yasuo said the city's scars had largely healed, but the recovery of people’s hearts would take time.

Info via Odditycentral

By Thineshkan