Amidst the devastating tsunami and earthquake in Japan, I am EXTREMELY grateful that my family was fortunate to remain safe. They live along the West side, and although the entire country is being adversely affected, they seem to be doing well.
Here is an updated e-mail from my second cousin Mieko:
We still have aftershoks everyday, Chiyoko Obasama had no electricity hours several times in Kamakura. We store emergency kit, food and water in Kanto Area.
Japan is one of earthquake countries around The Pacific Ocean, and not a safe country now.
As you mentioned, if Japan had not been so industrialized, it would have suffered only tsunami. There are nuclear power plants in Tunami area. Usage of nuclear power is one of world wide interest , the world is watching how Japan gets over this twin disaster.
The problem is that all information comes from TEPCO ( Tokyo Electric Power Company) We remember TEPCO has been covering up damages discovered at their nuclear plants in Kashiwazaki-Kariba in Niigata. Japanese government seems to be on TEPCO's side. We should wait and see, in the long term, how long the evacuation will last and also what will happen to the TEPCO staff, firefighters and SDF (Self Defence Force) personnels now cooling down the nuclear
reactors.
Japanese people are mostly patient and quiet like desastered Tohoku people you see on TV, but I'm afraid the government and the company can deceive them. I heard no nuclear plants were constructed in US after Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant accident. Is that so?
Thank you again for thinking of us.
Mieko
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