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This is the follow-up to I Am a 14-year-old Japanese , an amazing story about LCDR Mike Morley’s personal experience and the United States Navy’s effort to reunite a Japanese girl and her family with their fishing ship that was adrift and lost at sea following the earthquake and tsunami. Getting ready for bed, one last e-mail dropped into the Blackberry… it was Shiho, writing to say that her father had successfully recovered his fishing vessel and had towed it safely into port. She writes: Shiho and her mother, with their ship safely back home. While Shiho’s story has a happy ending to it, other aspects of the recovery are ongoing and uncertain.“I Am a 14-year-old Japanese”
The online photo that started it all. The following true story has not been altered and is reprinted with permission. Please do not copy or reprint without permission, feel free to share by linking to this page. This was written by LCDR Mike Morley, a Navy Public Affairs Officer (PAO) currently serving in Singapore. After the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Morley volunteered to serve aboard the USS Blue Ridge for the first few weeks after the disaster. (Added April 2, 2011 – The follow-up to this story and photos are here: HOME!!!
By Jessica Dickler, staff writer March 18, 2011: 11:29 AM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- News of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan has been widespread, but donations have lagged way, way behind. Seven days after the 9.0 quake, donations to nonprofit organizations have reached about $87 million, according to a tally by the Chronicle of Philanthropy , a newspaper covering nonprofits. In comparison, one week after the earthquake in Haiti, donations totaled about $275 million. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, it was over $522 million.
Japan earthquake aid hits $87 million - lower than Haiti - Mar. 18, 2011
Tsunami survivors face monstrous cleanup task | The Japan Times Online
HIGASHIMATSUSHIMA, Miyagi Pref. — Where do you even start? Do you start by carting away the Chokai Maru, the 45-meter ship that was lifted over a pier and slammed into a house in this port town? Do you start with the thousands of destroyed cars scattered like discarded toys in the city of Sendai? With the broken windows and the doorless refrigerators and the endless remnants of so many lives that clutter the canals?
JPquake - Some Good Journalism
Have changed this page to a Google Forms/Spreadsheet combo to stop us from losing data when people edit at the same time. Use the form to input your submission.JPquake - Blogger Wall of Shame
Below is a list of bloggers that are not helping the situation by propagating the sensational and speculative stories written by bad journalists. This list is primarily focused on Japan-based bloggers of relative prominence and influence, that is, those who should be helping the situation. 5 - 6: Reporting without checking easily-confirmed facts; lazy as opposed to malicious OR just dumb fluff piece using human tragedy as a background.
A week in the tsunami's path: a personal account on the road in Japan for Reuters - Chang-Ran Kim
It was a few days into my assignment reporting on the aftermath of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake off Japan’s eastern coast and the tsunami it triggered on March 11. Driving past piles of splintered wood, uprooted houses, and boats deposited in the middle of Kamaishi, I had a hard time imagining that this harbour town in northeastern Japan had once been a fishing community of 40,000 residents. The streets were coated with a film of dirt, evoking images of urban warfare in some distant land. I remember thinking that the damage from the tsunami couldn’t possibly get worse than this. But Damir Sagolj, a Reuters photographer we rendezvoused with in Kamaishi, had already been to other coastal towns.
Japan earthquake: Parents search a tsunami-ruined school for their children - latimes.com
Reporting from Ishinomaki, Japan— Tatsuhiro Karino paused at the top of the muddy hill, took his wife, Masako, by the hand and led her slowly down to the ruins of the elementary school that entombed the body of their daughter, Misaki. Dwarfed by four mammoth cranes digging into the wreckage, the 40ish construction worker gently pulled a veil over his wife's face to shield her from the dust and whiff of death. But he couldn't protect her from this: the grim task of locating the body of their 8-year-old child, among the 94 students and teachers killed when their school was leveled March 11 in nature's twin strike of shaking ground and torrential wave. The couple, who also lost their 11-year-old son, Tetsuya, in the devastation, Tuesday joined a clutch of fellow parents asking the same maddening question: How could so many children among the 108 at the school have perished when they followed all the safety rules for a natural disaster?
Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare (Part Two) | timshorrock.com
As the six reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima power complex have burned out of control over the past week, both the foreign and Japanese press have been full of stories about the “Fukushima 50″ – the several hundred workers who have valiantly, in shifts of 50, struggled to contain the fires and in the process exposed themselves to serious risks of radiation. They have been rightly hailed as the unsung heroes of Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe, as noted by the London Guardian : [In Fukushima], plant workers, emergency services personnel and scientists have been battling for the past week to restore the pumping of water to the Fukushima nuclear plant and to prevent a meltdown at one of the reactors.With some 30,000-50,000 dead, half a million evacuees, and the gravest nuclear crisis in decades (albeit one that Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government, Sir John Beddington, has I think rightly characterized as a “sideshow”), the events of 3/11 are in many ways an order of magnitude greater than the Kobe earthquake of 1995 and in all probability the worst natural catastrophe ever to strike a developed nation. But Japan has bounced back swiftly from natural disasters before—is there any reason to expect this time to be any different? Here I explore one reason to be less than sanguine, the loss of power generation capacity at Tokyo Electric Power, more familiarly known as TEPCO, the hapless operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
After the earthquake: A long, hot summer | Spike Japan
This composite image compares observations after the earthquake to images of lights observed in 2010. Yellow indicates lights that were functioning in both 2010 and 2011, and includes Tokyo and areas to the south and west. Red indicates power outages detected on March 12, 2011, compared to data from 2010.
ReliefWeb » Map » Japan: Electricity Losses in Northeastern Japan (12 Mar 2011)
The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant in Japan, badly damaged during the extremely severe earthquake and tsunami there a week ago, continues to stabilise. It is becoming more probable by the day that public health consequences will be zero and radiation health effects among workers at the site will be so minor as to be hard to measure. Nuclear experts are beginning to condemn the international hysteria which has followed the incident in increasingly blunt terms.
Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA • The Register
Bid to 'Protect Assets' Slowed Reactor Fight - WSJ.com
Yumiko Ono has the latest from Japan where officials are making modest progress in containing that country's nuclear crisis, including using firetrucks to spray water on the damaged reactors. TOKYO—Crucial efforts to tame Japan's crippled nuclear plant were delayed by concerns over damaging valuable power assets and by initial passivity on the part of the government, people familiar with the situation said, offering new insight into the management of the crisis. Meanwhile, a regulator who was inspecting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power complex when the quake hit offered The Wall Street Journal one of the first eyewitness accounts of the havoc at the site, describing how the temblor took down all communications in the area, greatly complicating the response.Japanese earthquake and tsunami: Kesennuma city's Twitter feed shows how difficult it is to prepare for disaster. - By Alexandra Harney - Slate Magazine
Sorry, the page you are looking for has moved. You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive. Thanks for reading!The devastating impact of the Japanese earthquake on the country's ageing population was exposed on Thursday as dozens of elderly people were confirmed dead in hospitals and residential homes as heating fuel and medicine ran out. In one particularly shocking incident, Japan 's self-defence force discovered 128 elderly people abandoned by medical staff at a hospital six miles from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Most of them were comatose and 14 died shortly afterwards. Eleven others were reported dead at a retirement home in Kesennuma because of freezing temperatures, six days after 47 of their fellow residents were killed in the tsunami.
Japanese earthquake takes heavy toll on ageing population | World news | The Guardian
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