People power....Peer pressure....

Firstly, hats off to all the workers, anyone involved with the Fukushima plant.
Amidst all the heavy criticism, the doubts, the fears, they have battled non-stop to rectify a very bad situation. At no point did they think, 'I've got to get out of here', 'What if there is a nuclear fallout?', 'I can't be bothered with all this'...

No, they have pushed through, and today we finally have some good news that they are regaining control of the reactors at the plant.

THANK YOU!!!!!

I have just read this updated article from the foreign office....
http://ukinjapan.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=569052582

It basically reiterates what Beddington had said before. This guy knows his stuff, and even after repeated, precautionary, but nonetheless, annoying questions, he states that we ARE FINE!

The worse case is a cloud floating over us over 2 days, and that is ultimately a worst case involving southern blowing gale winds.

Sure the news is negative, but whose media is this? CNN have jumped on the fear bandwagon already. Spinach and milk has been found to be 'contaminated'. This is from Fukushima, right by the plant, and reports should not be blown out of proportion.

It is media like this that is giving me and all my friends a headache.

It is media like this that has driven us out of our home.

We are constantly having to fend off relatives and friends and fight for the country in which we live. One person in particular is making my life unmanageable. When people believe what they read and then relay this information as 100% fact, it is hard to contend with. When someone doubts you, it shows a lack of respect, not just for you, but for your friends, family, and the life that you lead.

We have been dealing with such things since last week, and we are exhausted.

Ironically enough, the BBC now pipe in with a report about the tsunami, saying that, one week on, it is the tsunami that is important. WE KNOW!!!!

People are suffering from lack of supplies. People are cold. We need to really help those in the north, but instead the media wants to drag Japan down into a cesspit of filth and lies.

I heard a very sad story today. They need diapers desperately. We sent some boxes up today, but stupidly no diapers.
If you are reading this and are in Japan, please send more to Second Harvest. I posted the link in another post. The address is in Tokyo and can be done with regular post.

Here is the story I heard from my friend....

・ I need to change my daughter's diaper, but there is any diaper left.

・ We evacuated to the shelter. We have a baby crying in the night, it seems to make people annoyed. We are at a loss.

"・ I am looking for my wife every day, but she is still missing. I have nothing to confirm her safe...

・ Gasoline has run out. We can't go to our uncle's funeral.

・ Our family was ok, but our house, money, everything were washed away by tsunami. We have no hope in the future.

・ Water is still cut off in the shelter. Sanitary condition is getting worse day by day. An increasing number of evacuees sufeer from a wide range of physical irregularities."

We need to focus on helping. Hopefully, we will be able to follow this man more. Prayers and love to his family. I hope he can at least say good bye to his uncle.

After all this ranting, I want to end on a heartwarming note; animals reunited with their owners...

http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/japan-quake-dogs-pets-victims-110318/index_.html

God bless them all xxxxxxxxxx








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Positivity & Proactivity

Today is all about positivity and proactivity.

Interesting articles are finally emerging about the 'the truth' and more inside stories are being shared.

Here is on article I just read, with ways to help too.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=14yJAzaZwTmoSpVXmAWxXclJ0kDt7VecLDS3beD_dyeUJTsMVkcmqikepQFz8&hl=en&pli=1

Things are falling apart, but we can pull it back together.

People can also send packages of useful stuff to an address in Tokyo. Second harvest is a charity running supplies up to Sendai every other day.

http://www.2hj.org/index.php/news/send_us_food_and_supplies/

We really need to focus on this or more people will die unnecessarily.

As for the radiation, i haven't caught up with the news so much just yet. I saw that America fears the worst, but surely, if there is an issue, Japan should be more concerned. We are All fine. In fact, my boss just call me to say that all the foreign teachers have gone. But, all Japanese people are fine. How is he supposed to run his business?

And..in a detailed article, there is good news for Fukushima.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/fukushima_thursday/

It is one week to the day of the major earthquake. What has happened here is unreal. But, what is important is that we need to believe and fight back and help. Let's make today the day of positivity and proactivity.

Thank you and god bless you Japan xxx






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Ok, I will be sure to save this post so that even if it doesn't upload, I have the words down to copy.

My last post began with the point the the British Embassy have advised its people to leave Tokyo. This is sound advice and not at all rash like some other embassies. Our embassy is looking after the British people up north and keeping an eye on the potential dangers down south. They are supporting Japan and it has not gone unnoticed.

The main advice is to be beyond 80km away from the plant. Our house is over 200km, and now we are further away.

On NHK this morning, they were showing you how to make nappies out of towels and plastic bags and toilets out of cardboard boxes and bin bags. Yet amongst all this battle for survival, I still witness an older lady wiping and keeping clean the mat her family is sitting on.

And it this these older people who are becoming a concern too. Tohoku has heavy snow right now and it is very cold. If people can't stay warm, they will get sick.

Why is this happening?

News has just come in of the Mizuho banks nationwide being unable to dispense cash at ATMs. What will this mean?

The jma site has shocking reports to read...
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/indexe.html

So far, we are alright although, I am worried. So much is unsure right now...

We have faith and we have had great news that more friends have been seen in rescue centres. They are alive and well!!!

More later xxx


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The Japanese spirit is AMAZING

We have turned on the television for the first time since the massive quake and I am reduced to tears. Not just tears produced by exaggeration, but tears of genuine strength and love.

The news has shown pictures of a battered town, Ishinomaki (from whence we have spent days waiting to hear news..but it had come and it is good!,).

There was nothing there. By the hills, where there were some shops and, some houses, there was rubble. It has finally sunk home what has happened.

And, what makes it worse, is that we are here. Not being at home is like saying to people abroad that they are right; Japan is in trouble and beyond help.

THIS IS NOT TRUE.

Japan is nowhere near danger. So many countries have been too quick to criticise, to scold and to blame, but actually, never have I seen a country be more prepared and organised and thoughtful in such a tragedy.

The news gave some relatives the chance to send a message to family members lost in the chaos. An 8 year old girl cries ' otosan', while her mother explains how the father got lost in the quake. It is all done in a realistic way that makes you only admire the Japanese spirit even more.

My mother has been at least twenty times as hysterical, yet, had she read the media properly (and not the sun and bullshit.com), she would know that we are fine.

The British embassy even told me we weren't priority when I followed strict instructions to email them I was Ok. They got my information and then told me, quite understandably, that, not being near the epicentre, I was not top of the list. Also, (and you can read a previous post for this), no one in Britain, believes there is a threat.....the experts that is.

We know, here in Japan, that we have access to all medias, so, to hear that we are being fed false media is hard to believe.

For the first time in my life, I trust the government profusely. I cannot begin to praise the work being done for us here, especially by the workers at the plant. I cannot believe that there are such amazing people out there. God bless them, again and again. Words fail me.

I wish we hadn't left, but I know that there was little choice. We were far in the countryside and we don't have a car yet (although the day of the big earthquake we translated my licence and are almost there!).

Had circumstances been different, we would have stayed, but with very few few trains and many many nagging headaches, we left. I miss our home already and already feel like I am not there. There was a quake tonight, similar in strength to last night, but we felt nothing here. That is weird....

On a plus note, ideas have been forming for some decent ways to help. More, as and when they develop.

For now, I beg the media to back off. Japan is taking a battering from Mother Nature, it does not need a battering from the rest of the world. And please, please, please can someone sort out the news reports....BBC and CNN need to sort out their stories...biased...oh yes...selfish...oh yes' sensationalism...oooooooh yes.... That is NOT news. Get it right.






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