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Ben Breeze 4 years and his family. Dad Kent, mum Katrina and sister Isabella 14 months old.
Wednesday March 14, 2012 PH 5777 868
Kiwi kid’s shaky start By Annabelle Latz Ben Breeze now knows the sensation of grass between his toes, and used to think that sausage rolls were just hilarious. The four year-old arrived in Blenheim a year ago with his mum, dad and sister, after their home city 60km from Tokyo was left in ruins after the earthquake on March 12, 2011. His parents Katrina and Kent were born in the South Island, but Kent’s work had taken them to Japan, although Ben was born in Singapore and moved to Japan shortly afterwards. His 14 month-old sister Isabella was born in Japan. They joined their grandmother Lorraine Milmine here in Blenheim, and Kent’s mother who lives in Christchurch is Japanese. The Breeze family had an apartment on the top floor of a 16-storey building at Tokyo’s International Airport in Narita, where Kent was involved in the hotel business, the day their lives changed. Ben was having an afternoon nap, Katrina was playing with Isabella, and Kent had just come upstairs for an afternoon coffee. “It was never unusual for there to be an earthquake, we just got used to them, most Japanese people don’t even blink they are so common,” said Kent. CONTINUED PAGE 3.