350 kilometers from Tokyo to Sendai are full of stories and postcards that reflect the consequences for the 8.9 degree earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, the resulting tsunami that devastated an entire village and generate vandalized much of the Pacific coast, and the latent threat of nuclear catastrophe product damage Fukushima nuclear power plant.
No chance of reaching the area on commercial flights, and the Shinkansen (or bullet train makes the journey in half an hour moving at 300 km / h) is still down. Major highways are only enabled for rescue missions, military troops or humanitarian aid. The only way up north on their own is taking internal roads extending the mileage between the capital and the north.
In addition to this factor, the scarcity of fuel makes Sendai reach delay days and not hours. Travel to counter the first image that is clear in the rise is that the traveler will counter: Tokyo premises or migrate to the south in order to leave the area. Japanese infrastructure exceeded the tough challenge that provided the earthquake.
The tsunami was responsible for the images of devastation that have been passed since the weekend. However, neither natural disasters alone can explain the massive exodus north to south. Until Wednesday remained in place an alert of another earthquake of significant scale, and recorded on Tuesday morning in Tokyo turned on the alarm about another onslaught of water.
Everything has already been rejected, but now citizens must face the other side of the tragedy: shortages and fears of a nuclear spread. Nakaminato along the Pacific coast, a fishing village just over 23,000, located 70 kilometers from Tokyo and belonging to the province of Ibaraki, there are clear signs of damage, which would be higher if not for the preparation and organization that demonstrated the Japanese people.
The port still exhibits boats, cars and trucks stranded at the dock. But two days after the tragedy on the streets just detracted lots stowed away in the corners by the locals. In the community, officials installed on utility poles warning of the waves, which ruined the surprise and the resulting impacts.
Some residents realize that upon hearing the alarm took their purses always kept waiting for an emergency finally came and ran to the shelter set in advance that had nothing to do with weather forecasts, but with the logic that dwell in a port required precautions. The sea entered the village leaving marks in its wake.
Covered in the town about 60 centimeters and returned to normal with no homes or people. One day later, the people were facing disaster. Armed with rubber boots and plastic bags laid hands on the mud and debris, cleared the area and returned to their homes. Soda vending machines, cigarettes and candy on the sidewalks remained intact showing that no one was ready to make beating a dead horse.
No looting were the order of the day. On Monday, residents still lacked electricity and water. Within a radius of 20 km the only sites were open to stock up convenience stores with empty shelves significantly, provided little biscuits, chocolates and snacks. Water and sodas were available on short presentations and small quantities.
Shigueto Sako, clerk of the nuclear plant in Tokai I, located in the same district belonging to the province of Ibaraki, took three days removing mud and debris of her house with her husband. Tokai I is one of 17 nuclear reactors operating in northern Iraq. On Friday, after the earthquake and tsunami, stopped its activities while another ten distributed Miyagi, Ibaraki and Fukushima.
Shigueto, like all plant workers will remain at home until the situation is controlled. For her, the uncertainty is the most worrying in the region. Fuel, another concern rows to fill tanks of vehicles stretching for miles in either location. At some points were only allowed for registered inhabitants, while in others the sale was rationed to no more than 1,000, 2,000 or 3,000 yen per person, equivalent to 1 June 1913 to 20 liters of gasoline, respectively, amounts insufficient to advance large distances, one of the main reasons that has prevented busiest shift from the north on their own.
About 53 kilometers to the northeast, in the town of Hitachi is finally possible to see a supermarket selling food. Trade operates at half speed: the products are spread out in baskets and prices are set. It should be row, by noon on Tuesday does not exceed 60 people. The rationing is the rule, but not a sale is too narrow, so a family can be made with 10 kilos of rice and several gallons of oil, and other durable goods.
A city with more than 350,000 evacuadosIwaki, 70 kilometers to the north, and just 50 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant is home to 350,000 people. Because of its proximity, since the failures began in the reactors has begun to house citizens who resided at no more than 20 kilometers of the facility continues in flames.
Eight shelters were installed there for some 12,000 people from more than 170,000 have been evacuated by the government to prevent damage by leakage of radioactive particles emitted by the damaged reactor. In one of the shelters improvised in a sports center, more than half of the 1,400 persons are temporarily laid over 65 years.
The place is calm and quiet, although some residents say they are fairly distrustful of government statements that, despite the lack of control on the reactors, still maintain the restriction to no more than 30 kilometers from the nuclear plant. The city remains with the doors closed. The residents stayed at home taking the official call to not go out except for emergencies.
Businesses also inoperative mostly realize that the fear or caution rule in the area where 38 people were killed in the quake on Friday. At times the road conveys a loneliness verging on despair. You can travel for miles without seeing a car. In places closer to the Pacific coast is no shortage of trails that caused the tsunami damage in their wake.
Although the supply begins to progress slowly, getting places to eat is no easy task. Some signals are improvements in distribution, reopening its doors a couple of hours until the food runs out. Uncertainty about the nuclear threat About 90 miles to the northwest in the town of Koriyama, increases the flow of people.
Although the city is considerably more mobilized, also discerned another post that is leaving the tragedy: in a local sports center set up a checkpoint to rule out radioactivity levels in the residents. On Tuesday hundreds of people had in place to pass the test. Some on their own, others brought in from shelters in buses under government support.
The review is made about people, things and even pets. The procedure lasts no more than a minute and is less complex than practiced metal detection at airports. In the afternoon of Tuesday, citizens of the areas near the nuclear plant were checked on site with no signs of radiation. Some had to go in migration to the capital or the south, fleeing the area affected to the extent of its possibilities.
The caution of the specialist team was such that when a light rain began to fall, people moved into the center to avoid contact with water that could contain radioactive particles. In addition to free screenings, also distributed sheets and blankets, gift appreciated in a region that is reaching temperatures between two and seven degrees Celsius.
A heavy snow began surfacing in the road that connects to the affected town of Sendai in Miyagi province. After traveling another 128 miles to the north is possible to arrive at the train station in Sendai. Fully enclosed shows no signs of damage, however the scarce electricity like water.
Machinery in the streets realize that arrangements are underway, but the infrastructure, after a quick glance, it shows mostly hit. Communities in this province located to the coast were the most battered by the tsunami. The central Sendai was lucky, however, many locals do the formalities to leave the city soon.
Foreigners living there began to emerge through missions by embassies such as Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico, which this week received government permission to move convoys through the express tracks to remove their premises. Those who choose to stay try to return to normal facing supply problems and the looming threat of a nuclear crisis incomunique the region from the rest of the country.
Nine hours by car to get to Tokyo during the morning of Wednesday, some queues were visible in supermarkets and smaller stores to arm themselves food and water. Public transportation began running, but the railway network. The connection to the south is still limited: the return to Tokyo by land took nine hours.
In the capital there are still more sporadic aftershocks. The streets a little emptier than usual show that there are levels of concern among citizens, but at airports migration flow did not increase substantially, according officials at Narita International Terminal, demand only grew between flights to China and Korea that even had two charter yesterday for Seoul.
Train stations recorded no abnormal movements. That are normal operating stations and terminals warns that hysteria is not yet hold in Japan. 
No chance of reaching the area on commercial flights, and the Shinkansen (or bullet train makes the journey in half an hour moving at 300 km / h) is still down. Major highways are only enabled for rescue missions, military troops or humanitarian aid. The only way up north on their own is taking internal roads extending the mileage between the capital and the north.
In addition to this factor, the scarcity of fuel makes Sendai reach delay days and not hours. Travel to counter the first image that is clear in the rise is that the traveler will counter: Tokyo premises or migrate to the south in order to leave the area. Japanese infrastructure exceeded the tough challenge that provided the earthquake.
The tsunami was responsible for the images of devastation that have been passed since the weekend. However, neither natural disasters alone can explain the massive exodus north to south. Until Wednesday remained in place an alert of another earthquake of significant scale, and recorded on Tuesday morning in Tokyo turned on the alarm about another onslaught of water.
Everything has already been rejected, but now citizens must face the other side of the tragedy: shortages and fears of a nuclear spread. Nakaminato along the Pacific coast, a fishing village just over 23,000, located 70 kilometers from Tokyo and belonging to the province of Ibaraki, there are clear signs of damage, which would be higher if not for the preparation and organization that demonstrated the Japanese people.
The port still exhibits boats, cars and trucks stranded at the dock. But two days after the tragedy on the streets just detracted lots stowed away in the corners by the locals. In the community, officials installed on utility poles warning of the waves, which ruined the surprise and the resulting impacts.
Some residents realize that upon hearing the alarm took their purses always kept waiting for an emergency finally came and ran to the shelter set in advance that had nothing to do with weather forecasts, but with the logic that dwell in a port required precautions. The sea entered the village leaving marks in its wake.
Covered in the town about 60 centimeters and returned to normal with no homes or people. One day later, the people were facing disaster. Armed with rubber boots and plastic bags laid hands on the mud and debris, cleared the area and returned to their homes. Soda vending machines, cigarettes and candy on the sidewalks remained intact showing that no one was ready to make beating a dead horse.
No looting were the order of the day. On Monday, residents still lacked electricity and water. Within a radius of 20 km the only sites were open to stock up convenience stores with empty shelves significantly, provided little biscuits, chocolates and snacks. Water and sodas were available on short presentations and small quantities.
Shigueto Sako, clerk of the nuclear plant in Tokai I, located in the same district belonging to the province of Ibaraki, took three days removing mud and debris of her house with her husband. Tokai I is one of 17 nuclear reactors operating in northern Iraq. On Friday, after the earthquake and tsunami, stopped its activities while another ten distributed Miyagi, Ibaraki and Fukushima.
Shigueto, like all plant workers will remain at home until the situation is controlled. For her, the uncertainty is the most worrying in the region. Fuel, another concern rows to fill tanks of vehicles stretching for miles in either location. At some points were only allowed for registered inhabitants, while in others the sale was rationed to no more than 1,000, 2,000 or 3,000 yen per person, equivalent to 1 June 1913 to 20 liters of gasoline, respectively, amounts insufficient to advance large distances, one of the main reasons that has prevented busiest shift from the north on their own.
About 53 kilometers to the northeast, in the town of Hitachi is finally possible to see a supermarket selling food. Trade operates at half speed: the products are spread out in baskets and prices are set. It should be row, by noon on Tuesday does not exceed 60 people. The rationing is the rule, but not a sale is too narrow, so a family can be made with 10 kilos of rice and several gallons of oil, and other durable goods.
A city with more than 350,000 evacuadosIwaki, 70 kilometers to the north, and just 50 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant is home to 350,000 people. Because of its proximity, since the failures began in the reactors has begun to house citizens who resided at no more than 20 kilometers of the facility continues in flames.
Eight shelters were installed there for some 12,000 people from more than 170,000 have been evacuated by the government to prevent damage by leakage of radioactive particles emitted by the damaged reactor. In one of the shelters improvised in a sports center, more than half of the 1,400 persons are temporarily laid over 65 years.
The place is calm and quiet, although some residents say they are fairly distrustful of government statements that, despite the lack of control on the reactors, still maintain the restriction to no more than 30 kilometers from the nuclear plant. The city remains with the doors closed. The residents stayed at home taking the official call to not go out except for emergencies.
Businesses also inoperative mostly realize that the fear or caution rule in the area where 38 people were killed in the quake on Friday. At times the road conveys a loneliness verging on despair. You can travel for miles without seeing a car. In places closer to the Pacific coast is no shortage of trails that caused the tsunami damage in their wake.
Although the supply begins to progress slowly, getting places to eat is no easy task. Some signals are improvements in distribution, reopening its doors a couple of hours until the food runs out. Uncertainty about the nuclear threat About 90 miles to the northwest in the town of Koriyama, increases the flow of people.
Although the city is considerably more mobilized, also discerned another post that is leaving the tragedy: in a local sports center set up a checkpoint to rule out radioactivity levels in the residents. On Tuesday hundreds of people had in place to pass the test. Some on their own, others brought in from shelters in buses under government support.
The review is made about people, things and even pets. The procedure lasts no more than a minute and is less complex than practiced metal detection at airports. In the afternoon of Tuesday, citizens of the areas near the nuclear plant were checked on site with no signs of radiation. Some had to go in migration to the capital or the south, fleeing the area affected to the extent of its possibilities.
The caution of the specialist team was such that when a light rain began to fall, people moved into the center to avoid contact with water that could contain radioactive particles. In addition to free screenings, also distributed sheets and blankets, gift appreciated in a region that is reaching temperatures between two and seven degrees Celsius.
A heavy snow began surfacing in the road that connects to the affected town of Sendai in Miyagi province. After traveling another 128 miles to the north is possible to arrive at the train station in Sendai. Fully enclosed shows no signs of damage, however the scarce electricity like water.
Machinery in the streets realize that arrangements are underway, but the infrastructure, after a quick glance, it shows mostly hit. Communities in this province located to the coast were the most battered by the tsunami. The central Sendai was lucky, however, many locals do the formalities to leave the city soon.
Foreigners living there began to emerge through missions by embassies such as Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico, which this week received government permission to move convoys through the express tracks to remove their premises. Those who choose to stay try to return to normal facing supply problems and the looming threat of a nuclear crisis incomunique the region from the rest of the country.
Nine hours by car to get to Tokyo during the morning of Wednesday, some queues were visible in supermarkets and smaller stores to arm themselves food and water. Public transportation began running, but the railway network. The connection to the south is still limited: the return to Tokyo by land took nine hours.
In the capital there are still more sporadic aftershocks. The streets a little emptier than usual show that there are levels of concern among citizens, but at airports migration flow did not increase substantially, according officials at Narita International Terminal, demand only grew between flights to China and Korea that even had two charter yesterday for Seoul.
Train stations recorded no abnormal movements. That are normal operating stations and terminals warns that hysteria is not yet hold in Japan.
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