Japan nuclear crisis: the ghost towns inside Fukushima exclusion zone

The dining table is covered with the remains of a meal, four sake glasses and an overflowing ashtray, but there are no signs of life in Tomioka town, just four miles from the critically-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The family that lived here fled in a hurry, leaving their clothes strewn across another room's tatami floor.
Outside, cars stand abandoned in the empty streets while packs of dogs roam, searching for food.

On the edge of town, a dead cow lies by the edge of the road, while another has escaped its farm to stand and stare at our car, one of only a tiny handful to enter the 12-mile exclusion zone around the plant since the evacuation alert was sounded a month ago.

Read the whole story
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8457177/Japan-nuclear-crisis-the-ghost-towns-inside-Fukushima-exclusion-zone.html


・Here are the latest reports on the quake victims in Japan.  
http://hearthevoicefromjapan.blogspot.com/

How can we help?

・Save the Children, Japan quake victim
www.savethechildren.org/japanquake

・Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support Website

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Japan-Earthquake-Animal-Rescue-and-Support/207835229228979
OR;
http://japanearthquakeanimalrelief.chipin.com/japan-earthquake-animal-rescue-and-support/

・Japanese Red Cross
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html