Play Starring Hey! Say! Jump’s Hikaru Yaotome Explores Guilt After Loss from 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Fifteen years after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, a play about a young man who lost his entire family in the disaster is being staged. “Chiisana Kamitachi no Matsuri” (The festival of small gods) explores the journey of how its protagonist starts to look forward to the future after a mysterious experience. The play, starring Hikaru Yaotome of pop idol group Hey! Say! JUMP, is based on a novel written by Makiko Uchidate, who died in December. She wrote the novel based on her script for a TV drama by Tohoku Broadcasting Co. in Miyagi Prefecture.

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