Japan WWII survivor neighborhood remembered after last home torn down

As the last remaining house was torn down in a post-war makeshift residential district near the center of Sendai, the most populous city of Japan's northeast Tohoku region, it marked the end of an era for those who had come to call the neighborhood their home.Despite many wishing to stay in the Oimawashi district, residents were asked to vacate their houses to make way for a greenery project, as the city of about 1.1 million moved to demolish what was seen as a symbolic relic of its administration in the immediate post-World War II period.The district was built nearly 80 years ago for peopl…READ FULL ARTICLE