Normal TV programs are back now with occasional (well, very frequent) breaking news that report large-scale aftershocks occuring at the affected area night and day.
Shinkansen (Bullet Train) and regular train lines which connect Tokyo to Sendai are now restored and the operation was restarted.
Sendai Airpot that was washed away heavily by the tsunami is also partially restored in a matter of a month, and the first flight to/from Tokyo took off/landed just today with passengers and cargo.
Tokyo Disneyland is to reopen the park from April 15, although the open hours will be limited to 18:00
Yes, we started to hear some news on the brighter side, but this is what the heavily damaged area looks like now even after a month.
An elderly man observes an area devastated by the giant quake and tsunami in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture,
on Monday, exactly a month after the disaster. AP PHOTO
I've been searching for a single good article in English that well describes where Japan stands right now after a month from the multi-scale disaster hit the nation. I share the same view with this journalist.
Nation's unpreparedness ahead of disaster is blasted (Japan Times)
Among all the reliable info in the article, this fact recently revealed was also very shocking to me.
"To top off the seismic impact, a survey by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealed that the intense shift of the Earth's crust changed the distribution of the planet's mass. Because of the way the fault responsible for the quake slipped, the Earth now rotates faster, making a day about 1.8 microseconds shorter than before."
The Tohoku earthquake was one for the record books.
・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
・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
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