(Click to enlarge.)Fighting for Survival
Tokyo and adjacent cities are not directly hit by the great earthquake and tsunami last Friday.
But, they are haunted by electric power shortage, resulting in reduction of the number of railway services.
Partial and planned outages of electric power provision apply to each group of cities and towns, except Tokyo main 23 wards, for 3 hours or so per day, causing shortage of goods in supermarkets and convenience shops.
However, millions of commuters to Tokyo never cease to work in their workshops over troubled public transportation systems.
Yet, the Fukuhsima No.1 Nuclear Power Plant still poses a threat two-digits more dangerous to 30 million people living in 100 kilometer range from the center of Tokyo.
PART 17-7:
Self-Defense Force's water-cannon mounted vehicles did splash water to the 3rd nuclear reactor unit of the Fukushima No.1 Plant at 8 p.m.
The effect is yet to be confirmed.
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The number of shelters and refuges is more than 2,800 and the number of evacuees is about 320,000 in the tsunami affected areas of Japan.
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Foreigners are leaving Japan?
US officials warned citizens living within 80 kilometres (50 miles) of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to evacuate or seek shelter amid mounting concern of a catastrophic meltdown.
Britain advised its citizens to consider leaving Tokyo and northeastern Japan though British officials said there is still "no real human health issue that people should be concerned about".
France's authorities said they were assigning two government planes to assist French citizens who wanted to leave Japan.
Germany, Italy and The Netherlands also advised their nationals to leave or refrain from travelling to the northeastern region.
The Algerian and Colombian governments said they would send planes to Japan to repatriate their nationals.
http://www.france24.com/en/20110316-foreign-nationals-urged-evacuate-japan-frantically-tackles-nuclear-crisis
China is also collecting Chinese at the Tokyo Narita Airport to send them back to China.
It is not so bad, if they can leave Japan, to leave Japan that is in an emergency condition of a scale only seen once in 1000 years.
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Most of affected areas in northeast Honsyu Island, Japan, are now cold and temperature is below freezing. Snow has been also falling.
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The number of buildings and houses destroyed by the great earthquake/tsunami in northeast part of Honsyu Island, Japan, is about 7,000.
Probably, the number of cars lost is also about 7,000, in a few hours between the Magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 10-meters high tsunami.
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Yen is getting stronger over the US dollar. Tokyo Stock Market prices are going down; Chinese and French are leaving Japan; and Americans are moving south from Fukushima or Tokyo. Yet yen is getting stronger.
Many are puzzled, though the Japanese industrial power is not affected by this Great Disaster.
PART 17-1:
Japan's Self Defense Force helicopters poured water into the 3rd reactor unit of the Fkuhsima No.1 Nuclear Plant 30 minutes ago, four times from 9:48 a.m.
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Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant before Tsunami:
Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after Tsunami:
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After the great earthquakes and tsunami, workers of Fukushima No.2 Nuclear Power Plant voluntarily remained in the facilities to make full efforts to prevent nuclear fuel heat-up.
As a consequence, we have now only minor concerns about the state of the No. 2 Plant.
But, unfortunately, the No.1 Plant has been suffering serious condition since cooling mechanisms of nuclear fuel was stopped due to the earthquake (and power outage) and destroyed by tsunami.
Anyway, a hundred or so heroic workers of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. and Self-Defense-Force servicemen are fighting there to contain a possible large-scale nuclear disaster.
It is a historic incident not only for Japan but also for the world.
Pro 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Pro 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
Pro 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.