TOKYO - Mid Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, is an expanse of mud that stretches four kilometers. Under the slime covered by five inches of snow lying over ten thousand missing. Bodies and limbs, which are mixed with all sorts of debris, emerge to the point where the eye goes, like blades of grass in a meadow.
The survivors have no time and strength to try to recover them. Thousands of people, moved by night and flakes, fleeing to the Sendai prefecture to the south, or west toward the mountains. They walk along the edge of the road upset and asking for a passage to refugees who have managed to find a car intact and a bit 'of petrol.
When you reach inside, where the wave of the tsunami did not hit, knocking at houses that have withstood the shock. Asking for food, water, a warm place to stay for a few hours. The alarm Fukushima nuclear power today hides the likelihood of a bomb that invests in Japan: Tens of thousands of dead and missing in the now abandoned town destroyed, but also hundreds of thousands of survivors at the mercy of them and now at its lowest.
For five miles, between Nodamura in Iwate Prefecture and the Tokyo metropolitan area, an army of desperate and terrified and fleeing from hunger and frost, the danger of another earthquake of another destructive tsunami nightmare of the radioactive disaster. The human wave does not stop in the capital.
Millions of people, not just foreigners, are leaving for Tokyo by all means take shelter in the southern island of Honshu. There is a risk that a blackout paralyzed and left in the dark regions of Tohoku and Kansai. The nation's nuclear power plants no longer work and petrochemical plants in the Northeast are burned.
If a radioactive cloud is finally directing toward the capital, with transport stopped, airports closed and the spent fuel, more than 35 million Japanese were trapped. For the next two weeks in Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and at locations where trains stop super-fast Shinkansen line, there is a vacant room.
Exhausted international flights to any destination. In hundreds of towns and villages swept by the tsunami, the situation is terrifying. Over 2,500 shelters bursting with homeless. Among the 600 000 who have lost everything, tens of thousands are orphans, widows, old people without children, individuals were alone in the world.
Thousands of children waiting to find their parents, are assigned to neighbors of his bed. Are frozen and hungry, drink for a week a few drops of water per day. Snow and rain are riallagando the expanses of rubble and open coast bays swollen with homes, cars and corpses adrift. On the walls of the permanent buildings are hung with lists of names, tens of thousands of wounded, dead and gone, and it is impossible to scroll through them all to find who is not.
Continue to fail thousands of coffins and dig graves everywhere now in the swamps, destined to fill for months. The roadsides are covered with jackets and board laid over abandoned corpses. Prefectures upset may be lacking in more than 40 000 inhabitants and people wonder why pushing the government to silence the severity of a disaster that continues to increase.
The difference between the real and visible to all the official figures spread, which at least halve the carnage after a week is beyond comprehension. The bulk of the victims calling antiradioattivi drugs, templates and gauges of cesium, at least to protect children. Spreading despondency among those who see that the rescuers instead HCE multiply, leaving even the most affected places.
In the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, anger and outrage are at alert level. "They told us to go away - says Asushi Chiba, Mayor of Naraba - but forgets to tell us where and which, being still alive, we need some. TEPCO will come (the company that operates the nuclear power plant in crisis, ed) to bring rice and blankets? ".
To put the survivors escape to the ocean is the sensation, staying in areas destroyed, not to exceed the next few days. The exodus of economic refugees atomic impressive is multiplied rather unnerving uncertainty and inconsistency of official information. The Japanese think that the situation is out of control and that the authorities lie, lest an unmanageable panic.
A week before the Apocalypse shows worrying signs of weakness even composure, calm and social unity. The trip between Tokyo and Sendai is the mirror of a nation overwhelmed. The roads, cut off by snow and landslides, are invaded by military columns still due to lack of fuel and file of civilians fleeing in the opposite direction.
Army and fire brigade are seeking new ways to reach out to more isolated centers, increasing the helicopters, or relying on the navy. The city, even away from areas at risk, appear deserted. Not a child playing in a courtyard, a passer-by, someone at work. Miles of parked cars signal the approach of a distributor, almost always sold out.
A crowd of adult males met just outside the malls, which spread out the inputs. The race to be taken really. Leaves home for a family and buy everything that can be: long-life cartons, water, salt, dehydrated food, flashlights, batteries. Closed-end restaurants, kiosks, shops and factories.
Offices and schools are officially open, but desks and classrooms are almost empty. This large tract of Japan has the face of a nation that feels at war, or preparing to defend a mysterious attack. Who does not move is plugged into the house for days, standing in front of TV alal to pray and wait.
"We also do night shifts - said Tadashi Nishimura, barber Kuroiso - to be always ready for anything." In the rest of the country, life goes on almost normally, but it is clear that on March 11, a worm began to chew a lot of collective security. The main certainty to be demolished is keeping defenses tsunami.
Giganteche barriers of concrete, stretching for miles, were swept away by the sea like dry leaves. The city of Takatacho was protected from the bank entered the Guinness Book of Records for its grandeur. The masses of concrete turned into bombs, thrown on the houses for miles. Instead of breaking wave, the shelters are now smashed walls of a dam, increasing the violence of the Pacific.
"We had built cities and nuclear power stations on the coast - said Manabu Kagemoto, Mayor of Kesennuma - trusting the guarantee of invulnerability fonrita by engineers and scientists. Japan must not only rebuild the Tohoku region, but it all himself." E ', however, coming to Tokyo in the evening and after a journey of twenty hours, the general sense of the precariousness of the third power montiale reveals its devastating potential.
The lighting is low. The uqartieri of local fashion and luxury shopping are wide open. Restaurants closed. Supermarket shelves without merchandise. There is no traffic, the sidewalks are free of obstruction and metro stations deserted. Columns of people with the backpacker, or dragging suitcases, stopping in front of the train ticket.
A group of young people, indifference, manifested against nuclear power Yoyogi Park. Ueno Zoo has canceled the public presentation of the two giant pandas from China just rented, expected for months. File overturned bicycles were piled beneath the skyscrapers of the offices, not collected after the wind on Wednesday.
It remains a city of 13 million inhabitants in an area crowded with 35 million residents, but reports of who's talking about a normal daily life in the capital flows do not correspond to reality. Tokyo is now a city emptied and fleeing, frightened and with the prospect of an economic crash, hung on the news from Fukushima.
Foreigners and rich are gone, still the majority of those who have no alternative, or hopes for a miracle. A huge and historic hotel in Shinjuku, which is regularly sold out, is only open for a guest and each service is Pending Account, the elevator to the breakfast. The reception over when sleeping mask and a helmet and please keep the room light on, the bare minimum.
Many hotels, if you do not change everything immediately, will be closed from Sunday. The heart of Japan is deeply shocked and decent order that prevails there is not an expression of the ancient character, but a new collective concern, which isolates those who remain. While everything seems to close and finish, only the port of Hachinobe on the outskirts of Aomori, reopened yesterday.
After a week of stop, the big fish market distributes frozen free survivors of thirteen prefectures. He appealed to the fishermen of Miyagi and Iwate ensure reparation for all the stranded vessels, nets and ricalino sfamino population. The nation takes this act of solidarity as the harbinger of the resurrection is still possible.
"It 's our ultimate mission - says Yoshiro Kawamura, director of the fish market - only the ocean can now save that which ones are not taken away." 
The survivors have no time and strength to try to recover them. Thousands of people, moved by night and flakes, fleeing to the Sendai prefecture to the south, or west toward the mountains. They walk along the edge of the road upset and asking for a passage to refugees who have managed to find a car intact and a bit 'of petrol.
When you reach inside, where the wave of the tsunami did not hit, knocking at houses that have withstood the shock. Asking for food, water, a warm place to stay for a few hours. The alarm Fukushima nuclear power today hides the likelihood of a bomb that invests in Japan: Tens of thousands of dead and missing in the now abandoned town destroyed, but also hundreds of thousands of survivors at the mercy of them and now at its lowest.
For five miles, between Nodamura in Iwate Prefecture and the Tokyo metropolitan area, an army of desperate and terrified and fleeing from hunger and frost, the danger of another earthquake of another destructive tsunami nightmare of the radioactive disaster. The human wave does not stop in the capital.
Millions of people, not just foreigners, are leaving for Tokyo by all means take shelter in the southern island of Honshu. There is a risk that a blackout paralyzed and left in the dark regions of Tohoku and Kansai. The nation's nuclear power plants no longer work and petrochemical plants in the Northeast are burned.
If a radioactive cloud is finally directing toward the capital, with transport stopped, airports closed and the spent fuel, more than 35 million Japanese were trapped. For the next two weeks in Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe and at locations where trains stop super-fast Shinkansen line, there is a vacant room.
Exhausted international flights to any destination. In hundreds of towns and villages swept by the tsunami, the situation is terrifying. Over 2,500 shelters bursting with homeless. Among the 600 000 who have lost everything, tens of thousands are orphans, widows, old people without children, individuals were alone in the world.
Thousands of children waiting to find their parents, are assigned to neighbors of his bed. Are frozen and hungry, drink for a week a few drops of water per day. Snow and rain are riallagando the expanses of rubble and open coast bays swollen with homes, cars and corpses adrift. On the walls of the permanent buildings are hung with lists of names, tens of thousands of wounded, dead and gone, and it is impossible to scroll through them all to find who is not.
Continue to fail thousands of coffins and dig graves everywhere now in the swamps, destined to fill for months. The roadsides are covered with jackets and board laid over abandoned corpses. Prefectures upset may be lacking in more than 40 000 inhabitants and people wonder why pushing the government to silence the severity of a disaster that continues to increase.
The difference between the real and visible to all the official figures spread, which at least halve the carnage after a week is beyond comprehension. The bulk of the victims calling antiradioattivi drugs, templates and gauges of cesium, at least to protect children. Spreading despondency among those who see that the rescuers instead HCE multiply, leaving even the most affected places.
In the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, anger and outrage are at alert level. "They told us to go away - says Asushi Chiba, Mayor of Naraba - but forgets to tell us where and which, being still alive, we need some. TEPCO will come (the company that operates the nuclear power plant in crisis, ed) to bring rice and blankets? ".
To put the survivors escape to the ocean is the sensation, staying in areas destroyed, not to exceed the next few days. The exodus of economic refugees atomic impressive is multiplied rather unnerving uncertainty and inconsistency of official information. The Japanese think that the situation is out of control and that the authorities lie, lest an unmanageable panic.
A week before the Apocalypse shows worrying signs of weakness even composure, calm and social unity. The trip between Tokyo and Sendai is the mirror of a nation overwhelmed. The roads, cut off by snow and landslides, are invaded by military columns still due to lack of fuel and file of civilians fleeing in the opposite direction.
Army and fire brigade are seeking new ways to reach out to more isolated centers, increasing the helicopters, or relying on the navy. The city, even away from areas at risk, appear deserted. Not a child playing in a courtyard, a passer-by, someone at work. Miles of parked cars signal the approach of a distributor, almost always sold out.
A crowd of adult males met just outside the malls, which spread out the inputs. The race to be taken really. Leaves home for a family and buy everything that can be: long-life cartons, water, salt, dehydrated food, flashlights, batteries. Closed-end restaurants, kiosks, shops and factories.
Offices and schools are officially open, but desks and classrooms are almost empty. This large tract of Japan has the face of a nation that feels at war, or preparing to defend a mysterious attack. Who does not move is plugged into the house for days, standing in front of TV alal to pray and wait.
"We also do night shifts - said Tadashi Nishimura, barber Kuroiso - to be always ready for anything." In the rest of the country, life goes on almost normally, but it is clear that on March 11, a worm began to chew a lot of collective security. The main certainty to be demolished is keeping defenses tsunami.
Giganteche barriers of concrete, stretching for miles, were swept away by the sea like dry leaves. The city of Takatacho was protected from the bank entered the Guinness Book of Records for its grandeur. The masses of concrete turned into bombs, thrown on the houses for miles. Instead of breaking wave, the shelters are now smashed walls of a dam, increasing the violence of the Pacific.
"We had built cities and nuclear power stations on the coast - said Manabu Kagemoto, Mayor of Kesennuma - trusting the guarantee of invulnerability fonrita by engineers and scientists. Japan must not only rebuild the Tohoku region, but it all himself." E ', however, coming to Tokyo in the evening and after a journey of twenty hours, the general sense of the precariousness of the third power montiale reveals its devastating potential.
The lighting is low. The uqartieri of local fashion and luxury shopping are wide open. Restaurants closed. Supermarket shelves without merchandise. There is no traffic, the sidewalks are free of obstruction and metro stations deserted. Columns of people with the backpacker, or dragging suitcases, stopping in front of the train ticket.
A group of young people, indifference, manifested against nuclear power Yoyogi Park. Ueno Zoo has canceled the public presentation of the two giant pandas from China just rented, expected for months. File overturned bicycles were piled beneath the skyscrapers of the offices, not collected after the wind on Wednesday.
It remains a city of 13 million inhabitants in an area crowded with 35 million residents, but reports of who's talking about a normal daily life in the capital flows do not correspond to reality. Tokyo is now a city emptied and fleeing, frightened and with the prospect of an economic crash, hung on the news from Fukushima.
Foreigners and rich are gone, still the majority of those who have no alternative, or hopes for a miracle. A huge and historic hotel in Shinjuku, which is regularly sold out, is only open for a guest and each service is Pending Account, the elevator to the breakfast. The reception over when sleeping mask and a helmet and please keep the room light on, the bare minimum.
Many hotels, if you do not change everything immediately, will be closed from Sunday. The heart of Japan is deeply shocked and decent order that prevails there is not an expression of the ancient character, but a new collective concern, which isolates those who remain. While everything seems to close and finish, only the port of Hachinobe on the outskirts of Aomori, reopened yesterday.
After a week of stop, the big fish market distributes frozen free survivors of thirteen prefectures. He appealed to the fishermen of Miyagi and Iwate ensure reparation for all the stranded vessels, nets and ricalino sfamino population. The nation takes this act of solidarity as the harbinger of the resurrection is still possible.
"It 's our ultimate mission - says Yoshiro Kawamura, director of the fish market - only the ocean can now save that which ones are not taken away."
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