March 17th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
The Foreign Ministry has stepped up efforts to disseminate information related to last Friday’s powerful earthquake to other countries, amid intensifying global concern over the potential leak of a massive amount of radiation from the troubled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, ministry officials said Wednesday.
The ministry is planning to implement measures such as increasing the number of press conferences in English to counter exa ...
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March 17th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Police and the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan said Thursday that bogus e-mails and telephone calls from groups claiming to be collecting donations for earthquake victims have been occurring across the country following the catastrophic series of earthquakes and the tsunami which struck the Tohoku region on March 11.
According to Yahoo! Japan, there have been several confirmed scam e-mails since March 13 claiming to be from Yahoo! in ...
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March 16th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
The Japanese Red Cross Society heartily appreciates your kind offer of donation.If you wish your fund to be distributed directly among the affected population of the earthquake and tsunami, please direct your fund to the following bank account. If you need the receipt of your fund, please state so clearly in the comment section of the bank transfer order. All the fund received under this account will be transferred to the Distribution Committe ...
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March 16th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
The container of the No. 3 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant is feared to have been damaged and may have leaked radioactive steam Wednesday, emitting high-level radiation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said.
The radiation level briefly topped 6 milisievert per hour at the plant, the government’s nucler safety agency said.
The explanations were given after smoke was seen rising from the No. 3 reactor since arou ...
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March 16th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
AT&T Inc and Verizon Wireless Inc said earlier this week they have started offering free international calling and texting to Japan from the Untied States as part of support efforts following last week’s tragic earthquake and tsunami.
Retroactively to Friday, when the devastating quake hit northeastern Japan, AT&T wireless postpaid customers will not be charged for international calls and text messages to Japan through March 31 and Ver ...
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March 16th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Rescue operations continued Wednesday following the catastrophic earthquake in Japan, with 80,000 Self-Defense Forces personnel and police officers mobilized in the devastated areas, where temperatures have dropped to midwinter levels.
The National Police Agency said it has confirmed 3,676 deaths in 12 prefectures, including Iwate and Miyagi, while 7,558 people remained unaccounted for in six prefectures as of 8 a.m.
The death toll, however, ...
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March 16th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Like the previous 2 days, we are scanning the Japanese and English language web for updates that we feel to be the most trustworthy and relevant. When we are confident that the info is correct, it will be updated here. Things may change according to ongoing events. If you have any additional information, feel free to add it in the comments or mail blog@gaijinpot.com.
Japan Mobile Network Quake Repairs
Japanese operators are running full eme ...
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March 15th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Panic buying of food and other basic supplies since Friday’s earthquake have left supermarket and convenience store shelves empty throughout the capital. Traffic congestion has meant that distribution of stock has proved difficult. With electricity shortages resulting in rolling power outages across affected areas, it has become clear that the effects of the earthquake are becoming long-term ones.
In Tokyo’s Minato Ward supermarkets are comple ...
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March 15th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Like yesterday, we are scanning the Japanese and English language web for updates that we feel to be the most trustworthy and relevant. When we are confident that the info is correct, it will be updated here. Things may change according to ongoing events. If you have any additional information, feel free to add it in the comments or mail blog@gaijinpot.com.
Radiation update
A press conference has recently finished in which the government reit ...
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March 15th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) resumed rationing electricity Tuesday in areas in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo to avoid massive blackouts a day after launching the program amid chaos on the railway network.
The rationing began in parts of Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama and Kanagawa prefectures from around 7 a.m. The power outages in those areas are to last for a few hours.
While region-wide energy-saving efforts allowed the company to delay th ...
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March 15th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
An explosion was heard early Tuesday morning at the troubled No. 2 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the government said, about five hours after work resumed to inject seawater into it to prevent overheating of exposed fuel rods.
Shortly after the 6:10 a.m. incident, the radiation level exceeded the legal limit to reach 965.5 micro sievert per hour, and it is feared that the reactor’s pressure-suppression system was ...
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March 15th, 2011By Earthquake2011Category: Uncategorized
Confusion caused by a catastrophic earthquake and massive tsunami spread in Japan on Monday, with a quake-hit nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture suffering another hydrogen explosion and train services in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo mostly paralyzed due to Tokyo Electric Power Co’s announcement it was restricting power supply.
The number of the dead or unaccounted for following the magnitude 9.0 quake came to about 5,900 after a ...
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