I remember this being a proper formative memory, I was 15 and NHK's live broadcast was being shown on pretty much every news channel in the world, This was at around 8am UK time I think while I was getting ready for school. I always used to put the BBC news on whilst getting ready in the morning and I just couldn't look away. ended up getting to school around 2 hours late because I just couldn't stop watching.

Like I remembered the boxing day tsunami just but was too young at the time to really understand it, The live feed of a ten meter wall of water just bulldozing everything it its path just made the word Tsunami real in a way noting else can.

Never could bring myself to watch the footage back but just watching the doc has transported me right back to that morning, harrowing stuff.