Tokyo .- The number of victims of the "Great Earthquake of Eastern Japan, which met on Monday just one month, is closer to 27,500, with 13,116 dead and 14,377 people remain missing, according to recent data National Police. According to Nikkei news agency, many people observed a minute of silence Monday at 14:46 local time (7:46 in Spain), in the devastated region of Tohoku (northeast of Honshu Island) to commemorate the earthquake victims in ninth grade and the subsequent tsunami that devastated the area just a month ago.
The number of victims has been increasing since then and authorities believe it will continue to rise as rescue efforts progress, which have been particularly complicated by the characteristics of self-tsunami that devastated entire villages, and the nuclear disaster that occurred in the vicinity of the power plant in Fukushima-1.
According to the National Police, quoted by Nikkei, about 147,000 people have been installed in evacuation centers in 18 prefectures of the country. The power supply has resumed, but only in a few areas, and many people in the most affected regions are still without water or gas. Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture, regained some of its activities on Wednesday and the Tohoku Expressway became operational in late March.
The Government of Japan said Monday it will expand the security perimeter established around the plant in Fukushima-1 beyond the 20 mile radius, to include cities and villages that have accumulated high levels of radiation . The consequences of the disaster on Japan's nuclear industry have revived international debate about the safety of this energy source.
Besides, one month after the disaster, the worst affected areas are still suffering the aftershocks of the earthquake. This same Monday there was a 6.6-magnitude earthquake near Iwaki, in northeastern Honshu, which forced to stop for nearly an hour of cooling water injection three reactors in Fukushima-1.
Who also suffers the aftershocks of the earthquake is the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which has lost to the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD) in local elections held yesterday in several prefectures. This fulfills the forecast, which predicted a defeat for the prime minister's party, Naoto Kan, for his mishandling of nuclear and humanitarian crisis resulting from the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March. 
The number of victims has been increasing since then and authorities believe it will continue to rise as rescue efforts progress, which have been particularly complicated by the characteristics of self-tsunami that devastated entire villages, and the nuclear disaster that occurred in the vicinity of the power plant in Fukushima-1.
According to the National Police, quoted by Nikkei, about 147,000 people have been installed in evacuation centers in 18 prefectures of the country. The power supply has resumed, but only in a few areas, and many people in the most affected regions are still without water or gas. Sendai airport in Miyagi Prefecture, regained some of its activities on Wednesday and the Tohoku Expressway became operational in late March.
The Government of Japan said Monday it will expand the security perimeter established around the plant in Fukushima-1 beyond the 20 mile radius, to include cities and villages that have accumulated high levels of radiation . The consequences of the disaster on Japan's nuclear industry have revived international debate about the safety of this energy source.
Besides, one month after the disaster, the worst affected areas are still suffering the aftershocks of the earthquake. This same Monday there was a 6.6-magnitude earthquake near Iwaki, in northeastern Honshu, which forced to stop for nearly an hour of cooling water injection three reactors in Fukushima-1.
Who also suffers the aftershocks of the earthquake is the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which has lost to the Liberal Democratic Party (LPD) in local elections held yesterday in several prefectures. This fulfills the forecast, which predicted a defeat for the prime minister's party, Naoto Kan, for his mishandling of nuclear and humanitarian crisis resulting from the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.
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