In the belief that memories of the 3.11 disaster should be handed down to posterity, more than 100 stories have been produced for ‘kami shibai’, public storytelling with pictures. Many of them are based on actual events in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the earthquake. They cover a wide range of topics, including the story of a boy who saved many local residents from the tsunami and the experiences of people forced to evacuate after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident. American Jason Hancock reports on the true stories behind the storytelling.