Artist in tsunami-hit town reunites with schoolboy model for treasured painting(JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Yudai Suda, right, a model for the painting seen in back, and Keiichi Noda are seen in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 19. (Mainichi)

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi -- A shop owner and the schoolboy model for one of his paintings have been reunited for the first time in three years after both surviving the March 11 tsunamis.

"I was worried about him, and thought I couldn't manage to thank him, I feel relieved," says the shop owner, 67-year-old Keiichi Noda.

Noda searched for the boy, 13-year-old Yudai Suda, through "Kibo Shimbun" (Hope newspaper), a free newspaper distributed by the Mainichi that provides support information and a forum for displaced disaster survivors to search for each other. A local television station also helped, and after he learned where Yudai was living, Noda brought the painting to him on June 19.

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