MINAMISOMA (JAPAN) - On the beach Minamisoma black, red fire melts a thin layer of white snow, which fell to cover the destruction of the tsunami. They get up columns of gray smoke, but they are not the signal for ships and houses that glow in the mud. I survived some of the city, just over half of the 75 000 inhabitants, have resigned this morning.
They burn the corpses of their loved ones and strangers, using the windows of the buildings destroyed. It would require special permits, but the police see the pyres and does not disturb hundreds of people parading in front of the fire, bowing and kneeling. In most of the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate, overwhelmed by the wave, a persistent lack of electricity, fuel, gas and water.
Do not operate the crematoria, they are not bare for tens of thousands of corpses that re-emerge from the quagmire, the ocean and the coastal towns disappeared. Missing ice to preserve the bodies and do not know where to dig cemeteries. E 'funeral that Japan celebrates against himself, but also a ritual that provides an ideal boundary to what happened, to which the population relies on to start thinking about the day that the immovable face.
Now I'm the cold and hunger, along with the atomic spectrum of the wind, massacre Friday who had been surprised to have survived. Towns and villages overlooking the Pacific, in the Tohoku region, are isolated and paralyzed by the frost. The roads from descending to the sea are interrupted by landslides, cracks in the asphalt, wood color sudden waterfalls and mountains of rubble.
Night has fallen four degrees below zero during the day and wet flakes fell on the mass of homeless people wandering among the debris in search of food and people. A Rikuzen-Takata thousands of people are fleeing. They left the school, turned into the welcome center, and were put into walking, you do not know to where.
The children and old men wear on their shoulders, wrapped in blankets and covered by blue curtains. Women hold up bags of nylon that have pushed the remaining family property. Escape the city destroyed because they are convinced that if they do not move, they will die. In the central heating does not work, there is no kerosene for the heaters, the light is blown.
After the first two days food rations are exhausted. The patients were divided by ten to one dose and have almost stopped drinking. During the night, however, two older, corroded by moisture freezing mud-soaked clothes, died of pneumonia. Many express a deep slumber before cooling the body and feel his hands and feet of ice.
The column of the fugitives crossed the rescuers sent from Tokyo, but does not stop. "Bring us out of here," shouted the boys and their claim sounds like an indictment of the mysterious slowness of aid. Evacuees in the Northeast are worried that the snow and rain will send upon them the radioactive particles emitted by Fukushima and ask to be rescued in safe regions and far.
They claim that the military distribute iodine pills to measure the radioactivity of people. Montano unexpected anger and protest. The pain, hardship and terror they are doing to keep your head who hoped to be able to get over the shock. Just a gust of wind that triggers a crash, or just another earthquake, because individuals sobbalzino enervated and yield to the cries.
It 'hard to believe, but the country has 55 nuclear power stations and hundreds of petrochemical plants in the nation that has built its success sull'avanguardia energy and technology, relief to the survivors of 11 March wrecked due to lack of fuel vehicles able to advance through the excessive debris of progress.
And in Japan, which is overflowing with goods, refugees Honshu five days after missing a piece of bread and a dry shirt. Breaking the rules here not covered by the collective choices considerable. But today, Ishinomaki, began looting stores and ruins. A third of the city, 160 thousand inhabitants, is buried by a new lagoon.
Thousands of survivors wander through the ruins without water in search of supplies, shoes and blankets. They know that through the window of a store and spilled out with fruit juice and a packet of biscuits, it's a shame. But finally, the resignation prevails to survive and thefts are not reported.
"We were not ready to Hell - Tomonao says Matsuo, leader of a team of firefighters sent to Yamagata - and its size has overwhelmed us. Tackling an earthquake, a tsunami, nuclear disaster, tens of thousands of deaths, 600 thousand homeless and destroyed an entire region, is a test to the limits of possibility for any nation.
" Displaced people in shelters in silence listening to the radio broadcasting the message of the Emperor. No comment, but people look around and it is clear that reflect. Hundreds of children, Ofunato, are lying under tarpaulins to avoid possible air contamination. From Monday the trucks with food rations are no longer there.
The population fears that the water distributed by tankers is dangerous and closed to obtain a half-liter bottle, was shaped tail of a mile. I just have to move without fear old. "I hope Fukushima - Yuko Ota says - is doing its job quickly. I lost my children and grandchildren, I'm alone.
If the unit will not be responsible to me." Only in Sendai, Kesennuma and other larger cities, you begin to feel relief. A section of the runway is cleared of recognized from carcasses of the army to allow the landing and takeoff of flights loaded with wounded. I rescue dogs run and are caught in the deserts of tangled structures, but recovered only people sitting on a piece of scale, or on a dresser, turned into the stems of family graves.
It is said that in Sendai have been saved 25 000 inhabitants and thousands, residents in neighborhoods to the sea, have been scattered at hospitals throughout Japan. Doubt, however, the evacuees and recite the names of dozens of villages in the prefecture still inaccessible and isolated, where no one answers.
In the post of Shiogama, adapted to the morgue, the dead outnumber the residents. The current violence in the mud of the ocean and the victims have moved dozens of miles and no one is able to understand where it comes from the mass of bodies. "If by tomorrow 600 000 live will not receive the necessary to resist - he says Setsuko Otake, Mayor of Tagajo - the world will get him a load of dead than threatened by the middle of Fukushima.
These words are too large, dictated by despair, but in the devastated areas, the situation worsens by the hour and no one knows who has assumed the responsibility of aid. A Otsuchicho in the prefecture of Iwate, seventy individuals have been recovered yesterday afternoon by a group of fishermen.
From Friday, were hidden in a tuna vessel overturned, adrift on the tide. U.S. helicopters flew over the boat several times, he lost fuel and burned. Tuesday, coming to the rescue of survivors, were taken up for the risk of radiation. The vessel was Tomuko Shida, mother of two children.
"They were injured - he says - and semiassiderati. What of nine years died Tuesday at 9.30, the smallest 1am on Wednesday. I told stories, my life, I said that we were coming to take. But there ' was none. " The woman said that it did not kill her because "I have another daughter who needs me." Last night the child's name was found on the list of victims.
Japan is shaken by an intractable mess, is that he is showing a remarkable composure in the grapple with it, is an obvious fact. It would be fatal, however, ignore the fact that while the international community struggles to estimate the financial consequences and alternative energy, tens of thousands of human beings here are exposed to the hardness of the concrete elements and continue to die for the lack of assistance.
Over the remains of dozens of men shove Chiba long poles to probe the swamp and on Friday they do not stop screaming the names of family and friends. Three hundred miles of coast were a garden of paddy fields, apple orchards and berries. There were farms and fish markets from where it started all over the planet.
The work of generations is destroyed, for years nobody will buy more food and Japanese survivors say they are confident that it will be impossible to start. "But airlines and foreign governments - says Teroyoshi Aihama, the only survivor in the town of Yamamoto - are quick to cancel flights and recall countrymen.
We do not need to escape, but rested for people to come and lend a hand." The choice was not to think about the dead and missing to take care of the wounded and the survivors. But the false certainty that in the most remote prefectures had been saved by the alarm felt by the tsunami launched television, has prompted the authorities to deal with disruption to traffic ahead of Tokyo and the irritation of Western governments, rather than a few million peripheral individuals inconclusive.
So today in the shop of Kamaishi are only sold old bottles of vodka, there is no milk for babies, hospitals have no medicine, no electricity, 22 000 people are divided 6 000 5 000 balls of rice and bottles of water. It is not a return to frugality, saving the postwar period, but the yield premiums of insurance and a surprising relegation of courage and honor.
The six hundred thousand survivors to 11 March in Japan knows that by now who does not answer is not here, but hope that today the world sent condolences to stop and decide to do something. Along the curves of the highway 115 that goes down from Soma Fukushima, Yuto Hayasaka brisk walk.
It 's a total darkness and holds his arms outstretched, a bag with her dead son. The returns to his home in Sukagawa. Do not think of the reactors at the central station. "People have to start - he says - to put everything in its place." 
They burn the corpses of their loved ones and strangers, using the windows of the buildings destroyed. It would require special permits, but the police see the pyres and does not disturb hundreds of people parading in front of the fire, bowing and kneeling. In most of the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate, overwhelmed by the wave, a persistent lack of electricity, fuel, gas and water.
Do not operate the crematoria, they are not bare for tens of thousands of corpses that re-emerge from the quagmire, the ocean and the coastal towns disappeared. Missing ice to preserve the bodies and do not know where to dig cemeteries. E 'funeral that Japan celebrates against himself, but also a ritual that provides an ideal boundary to what happened, to which the population relies on to start thinking about the day that the immovable face.
Now I'm the cold and hunger, along with the atomic spectrum of the wind, massacre Friday who had been surprised to have survived. Towns and villages overlooking the Pacific, in the Tohoku region, are isolated and paralyzed by the frost. The roads from descending to the sea are interrupted by landslides, cracks in the asphalt, wood color sudden waterfalls and mountains of rubble.
Night has fallen four degrees below zero during the day and wet flakes fell on the mass of homeless people wandering among the debris in search of food and people. A Rikuzen-Takata thousands of people are fleeing. They left the school, turned into the welcome center, and were put into walking, you do not know to where.
The children and old men wear on their shoulders, wrapped in blankets and covered by blue curtains. Women hold up bags of nylon that have pushed the remaining family property. Escape the city destroyed because they are convinced that if they do not move, they will die. In the central heating does not work, there is no kerosene for the heaters, the light is blown.
After the first two days food rations are exhausted. The patients were divided by ten to one dose and have almost stopped drinking. During the night, however, two older, corroded by moisture freezing mud-soaked clothes, died of pneumonia. Many express a deep slumber before cooling the body and feel his hands and feet of ice.
The column of the fugitives crossed the rescuers sent from Tokyo, but does not stop. "Bring us out of here," shouted the boys and their claim sounds like an indictment of the mysterious slowness of aid. Evacuees in the Northeast are worried that the snow and rain will send upon them the radioactive particles emitted by Fukushima and ask to be rescued in safe regions and far.
They claim that the military distribute iodine pills to measure the radioactivity of people. Montano unexpected anger and protest. The pain, hardship and terror they are doing to keep your head who hoped to be able to get over the shock. Just a gust of wind that triggers a crash, or just another earthquake, because individuals sobbalzino enervated and yield to the cries.
It 'hard to believe, but the country has 55 nuclear power stations and hundreds of petrochemical plants in the nation that has built its success sull'avanguardia energy and technology, relief to the survivors of 11 March wrecked due to lack of fuel vehicles able to advance through the excessive debris of progress.
And in Japan, which is overflowing with goods, refugees Honshu five days after missing a piece of bread and a dry shirt. Breaking the rules here not covered by the collective choices considerable. But today, Ishinomaki, began looting stores and ruins. A third of the city, 160 thousand inhabitants, is buried by a new lagoon.
Thousands of survivors wander through the ruins without water in search of supplies, shoes and blankets. They know that through the window of a store and spilled out with fruit juice and a packet of biscuits, it's a shame. But finally, the resignation prevails to survive and thefts are not reported.
"We were not ready to Hell - Tomonao says Matsuo, leader of a team of firefighters sent to Yamagata - and its size has overwhelmed us. Tackling an earthquake, a tsunami, nuclear disaster, tens of thousands of deaths, 600 thousand homeless and destroyed an entire region, is a test to the limits of possibility for any nation.
" Displaced people in shelters in silence listening to the radio broadcasting the message of the Emperor. No comment, but people look around and it is clear that reflect. Hundreds of children, Ofunato, are lying under tarpaulins to avoid possible air contamination. From Monday the trucks with food rations are no longer there.
The population fears that the water distributed by tankers is dangerous and closed to obtain a half-liter bottle, was shaped tail of a mile. I just have to move without fear old. "I hope Fukushima - Yuko Ota says - is doing its job quickly. I lost my children and grandchildren, I'm alone.
If the unit will not be responsible to me." Only in Sendai, Kesennuma and other larger cities, you begin to feel relief. A section of the runway is cleared of recognized from carcasses of the army to allow the landing and takeoff of flights loaded with wounded. I rescue dogs run and are caught in the deserts of tangled structures, but recovered only people sitting on a piece of scale, or on a dresser, turned into the stems of family graves.
It is said that in Sendai have been saved 25 000 inhabitants and thousands, residents in neighborhoods to the sea, have been scattered at hospitals throughout Japan. Doubt, however, the evacuees and recite the names of dozens of villages in the prefecture still inaccessible and isolated, where no one answers.
In the post of Shiogama, adapted to the morgue, the dead outnumber the residents. The current violence in the mud of the ocean and the victims have moved dozens of miles and no one is able to understand where it comes from the mass of bodies. "If by tomorrow 600 000 live will not receive the necessary to resist - he says Setsuko Otake, Mayor of Tagajo - the world will get him a load of dead than threatened by the middle of Fukushima.
These words are too large, dictated by despair, but in the devastated areas, the situation worsens by the hour and no one knows who has assumed the responsibility of aid. A Otsuchicho in the prefecture of Iwate, seventy individuals have been recovered yesterday afternoon by a group of fishermen.
From Friday, were hidden in a tuna vessel overturned, adrift on the tide. U.S. helicopters flew over the boat several times, he lost fuel and burned. Tuesday, coming to the rescue of survivors, were taken up for the risk of radiation. The vessel was Tomuko Shida, mother of two children.
"They were injured - he says - and semiassiderati. What of nine years died Tuesday at 9.30, the smallest 1am on Wednesday. I told stories, my life, I said that we were coming to take. But there ' was none. " The woman said that it did not kill her because "I have another daughter who needs me." Last night the child's name was found on the list of victims.
Japan is shaken by an intractable mess, is that he is showing a remarkable composure in the grapple with it, is an obvious fact. It would be fatal, however, ignore the fact that while the international community struggles to estimate the financial consequences and alternative energy, tens of thousands of human beings here are exposed to the hardness of the concrete elements and continue to die for the lack of assistance.
Over the remains of dozens of men shove Chiba long poles to probe the swamp and on Friday they do not stop screaming the names of family and friends. Three hundred miles of coast were a garden of paddy fields, apple orchards and berries. There were farms and fish markets from where it started all over the planet.
The work of generations is destroyed, for years nobody will buy more food and Japanese survivors say they are confident that it will be impossible to start. "But airlines and foreign governments - says Teroyoshi Aihama, the only survivor in the town of Yamamoto - are quick to cancel flights and recall countrymen.
We do not need to escape, but rested for people to come and lend a hand." The choice was not to think about the dead and missing to take care of the wounded and the survivors. But the false certainty that in the most remote prefectures had been saved by the alarm felt by the tsunami launched television, has prompted the authorities to deal with disruption to traffic ahead of Tokyo and the irritation of Western governments, rather than a few million peripheral individuals inconclusive.
So today in the shop of Kamaishi are only sold old bottles of vodka, there is no milk for babies, hospitals have no medicine, no electricity, 22 000 people are divided 6 000 5 000 balls of rice and bottles of water. It is not a return to frugality, saving the postwar period, but the yield premiums of insurance and a surprising relegation of courage and honor.
The six hundred thousand survivors to 11 March in Japan knows that by now who does not answer is not here, but hope that today the world sent condolences to stop and decide to do something. Along the curves of the highway 115 that goes down from Soma Fukushima, Yuto Hayasaka brisk walk.
It 's a total darkness and holds his arms outstretched, a bag with her dead son. The returns to his home in Sukagawa. Do not think of the reactors at the central station. "People have to start - he says - to put everything in its place."
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