3-11: Remembering Japan's triple disaster
A new exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, revisits a national tragedy
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Sarah Eberspacher
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(Image credit: (Boston MFA))

Morning Glow, 2011
(Image credit: (Kikuji Kawada/Museum of Fine Arts Boston) Four years later, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts is opening In the Wake, an exhibition of work by Japanese artists who have addressed their country's)

Untitled from the series Site/Cloud, 2012
(Image credit: (Daisuke Yokota/Museum of Fine Arts Boston))

2013.10.20 Kesen-cho from the series Rikuzentakata, 2013
(Image credit: (Naoya Hatakeyama/Museum of Fine Arts Boston)The show features nearly 100 works by 17 photographers. To get that selection, Morse and her colleague, Anne E. Havinga, traveled all over Japan t)

April 26, 2011, Onahama, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, from the series Mirrors in Our Nights, 2011
(Image credit: (Arai Takashi/Museum of Fine Arts Boston))

'11 6 2, 2011
(Image credit: (Nobuyoshi Araki/Museum of Fine Arts Boston))

2011:04:02, Minamisanriku, Motoyoshi, Miyagi Prefecture from North East Earthquake Disaster Tsunami, 2011 Portfolio, 2011
(Image credit: (Miyoshi Kozo/Museum of Fine Arts Boston) The exhibition is divided into two sections: The first revolves around the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, while the second focuses on the Fukushi)

From the series Cesium, 2012
(Image credit: (Seto Masato/Museum of Fine Arts Boston))

Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore) 45 from the seris Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 2012
(Image credit: (Shiga Lieko/Museum of Fine Arts Boston))

Trace #16, Lake Hayama (Mano Dam) from the series Trace, 2012
(Image credit: (Shimpei Takeda/Museum of Fine Arts Boston)What was most important, to many of the artists, Morse said, was that the exhibition reaffirm that the disaster has not been forgotten."With most of)

Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore) 46 from the seris Rasen kaigan (Spiral Shore), 2011
(Image credit: (Shiga Lieko/Museum of Fine Arts Boston) **In the Wake is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, April 5 through July 12. For more information, visit the MFA's website**)
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Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.