Evening news roundup

March 24th, 2011By Category: Uncategorized

To try and help you better sift through the news and understand what is going on and where in Japan as we approach the second week since the earthquake first struck off the coast of Miyagi ken, we have gathered together a collection of stories from the English-language press.

As we reported last night, radioactive iodine was found in the water. However, today Naoki Inose, Deputy Governor of Tokyo, has tweeted that the level of iodine measured at the Katsushika water plant dropped to 79 Bq/kg this morning. As Time Out Tokyo reports, however, polluted water may still remain in the city’s pipes, so parents of infants 12 months old and under should continue to take precautions.

Part of those precautions include this, the distribution of 240,000 bottles of water for babies by the Tokyo government.

From Tokyo Times comes the grim news that the death count continues to rise. See this PDF for a break down of those missing by prefecture.

Work continues to bring the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control. Although a certain level of danger has passed, the plant still has some way to go before a cold shutdown can be enacted. A British newspaper has the first pictures of the Fukushima Fifty and some heart-wrenching stories of the people risking their lives in there.

Another story from the Daily Yomiuri. As the tsunami rushed in, hospital worker spent his last seconds securing a satellite phone.

$5+ million raised through Google Crisis Response for relief efforts in Japan: http://goo.gl/ShqO5

The earthquake from an architect’s perspective.

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