Spring Equinox.

News comes in right now of power being connected to all the reactors. The progress is slow, but it is still progress and it is steady and good. Thank you and god bless you. We just need a little more and hopefully, this will calm down by tomorrow night.

We really need to concentrate on the people up north. Four have died from sheer cold. Can you imagine it? You survive a quake, you survive a deadly tsunami, you make it to an evacuation centre, but days later die, shivering, waiting for a kerosene heater to come your way.

Keep the donations and packages coming people, please.

Water has been switched on in Sendai and most of my friends are back at work either last Friday or tomorrow. Life resumes.

The foreign media is ever relentless with their battering of the Japanese nation. Why? We, the people living here still, foreigners and locals, are tired and drained from this. It is so bad that one man has posted a video urging people to stop...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH7JYAphuTE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

(if the link doesn't work, just search for 'stop the hysteria' on YouTube)

There is even a list being compiled, a 'wall of shame' for the journalist or media outlets that have helped create this mass hysteria...

http://jpquake.wikispaces.com/Journalist+Wall+of+Shame

Even if you have nothing to contribute directly, it is very very interesting to have a read of some of the additions to the list!

And, last night's reports of radiation in our area are very positive. We see no reason not to return home.

http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/03/20/1303902_04_1.pdf

Below is an article about a couple of 'nuclear evacuees'. At first, i thought this term would be preempting some dramatic non event, as most of the media has been doing, but we are presented with 2 genuine stories. One form a local man and also one form a foreigner. I urge you to read and then think about making that donation that you may have been postponing.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/110320/japan-nuclear-evacuees?page=full

So, may the spring equinox bring about some fresh ideas and attitudes for Japan and those supporting it.

Much love xxxx

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Location:Gifu, Aichi ken, Japan