7656 When the March 2011 Tsunami Hit His Home Town of Ishinomaki Hideaki Akaiwa Was at Work Realising His Wife Was Trapped in Their Home He Ignored the Advice of Professionals Who Told Him to Wait for the Army to Arrive to Provide Search and Rescue Instead He Found a Wetsuit Jumped in the Raging Torrent Dodging Cars Houses and Other Debris Being Dragged Around by the Powerful Current Any of Which Could Have Killed Him Instantly and Navigated the Now Submerged Streets in Pitch Dark Reezina Water Until He Found His House Swimming Inside He Discovered His Wife Alive on the Upper Level With Only a Small Amount of Breathing Room and Pulled Her Out to Safe if He Had Waited for the Army His Wife of 20 Years Would Be Dead Oh and if Tha's Not Enough Badassery for One Iftime Hideaki Realised His Mother Was Also Unaccounted for So Jumped Back in the Water and Managed to Save He Life Also for Weeks After the Disaster Hideaki Entered the Water Every Day on a One-Man Search and Rescue Mission Saving Countless Lives and Proving That Two Natural Disasters in a Single Day and Insurmountable Odds Can't Stand in the Way of Love Is Man Is a Hero Hideaki Akaiwa the Badass Savior