Hearns Beschreibung des Meiji-Sanriku-Erdbebens, das 1896 in derselben Region wie das aktuelle Beben 22.000 Opfer forderte, fand später Eingang in die Grundschullehrbücher unter dem Titel Das brennende Reisfeld.
Hearn’s depiction of the Meiji-Sanriku earthquake, which in 1896 took 22,000 lives in the same region as the recent quake, was later included in elementary school textbooks under the title of “The Burning of the Rice Field.”