Tokyo Correspondent - "Are we abandoned?" A call in the wilderness has been launched by the Mayor of Minami Soma, a town situated near the containment area 30 km around the plant in Fukushima, in which residents are expected to stay home caulked. "More can not help, no medicine, petrol or kerosene. We're isolated," he testified.
Residents still seeking their relatives in the rubble. Others try to go on foot to escape the risks of radioactivity associated with explosions in several reactors. Where should they go? Nobody told them. The pages of letters to the editor of newspapers, which devoted more space than usual, are full of messages of distress.
Sent by fax or email, when possible, by residents of remote villages. Since Wednesday, March 16, it snows in northern Honshu Island, concealing a white layer of apocalyptic landscapes affected departments. Winter temperatures dropped a little lower, from -2 ° C - 4 ° C. The streets lined with ruins and debris are strangely silent.
More than 20,000 people remain isolated, without help, without food or water. This is the case of villages whose access roads have been cut, but the dust of islands along the coast. Some of their residents were rescued by helicopter four days after the tsunami: they had nothing to eat. Half a million people in 2400 bivouac shelters opened by local authorities.
They also suffer from the cold due to lack of fuel. Wrapped up his head, shaking pans around, they answered questions from journalists on television. Some tremble still others have struggled to hold back their tears. An elderly mother desperate to find her son ... to other, slaughtered, seem prostrate.
They wait without knowing what really because the only information they are being disseminated by television, adding to anxiety. They have lost everything and they might for those who are close to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, to be irradiated. Without being able to flee. For the mayor of the town of Tomizuka, not far from the plant, "the State shall specify the extent of the danger zone, and tell us where to go." The trucks are now refusing to approach the area where radioactive particles have been dispersed.
The crippling shortage of fuel aid: food supplies arrive in urban areas but can not be sent to the countryside. A Minami Sanriku (Miyagi Prefecture), a small town 17 000 inhabitants of which 10 000 are missing, the mayor, Jin Sato, received no directive from central government, if not ask people to stay home.
"I listen to the radio to know what is happening. The state has built these plants, it is up to him to help us," he said. Located in an area that could be irradiated, the town receives almost no relief in gasoline, medicines or food. Many elderly people are at the limit of their physical strength.
Six died of exhaustion and cold in a hospital in-Sen, whose heating systems were drowned by the tsunami. Some refused to leave what remains of their homes, preferring to await death. An old blind lady, living alone in Minami-Soma, was finally rescued four days after the earthquake: she did not understand what was happening, a recluse in his house collapsed half.
"I called the neighbors but no one answered," she said. Patients, diabetic or suffering from blood pressure drugs are not. Given the gravity of the health situation, Japan has allowed foreign doctors to practice in the archipelago. But so far, for want of fuel, medical teams were unable to reach hospitals still standing in the affected areas.
After the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, the government promised to mobilize hundred thousand soldiers. Some victims feel abandoned by the authorities. Letters to the editor of newspapers and blogs are also indicative of frustration and anger of the victims, who criticize people in Tokyo who "monopolize" the products being so lacking in those who were directly affected by the earthquake and the tsunami.
"This selfishness is indecent," wrote a reader of the newspaper Asahi. Many are without news of their loved ones. This is true of religions specialist Yamaori Tetsuo, a native of Iwate Prefecture. "I have to prepare for the worst," he wrote in Asahi, one can eliminate suffering, but we can at least be with those who are victims.
This, too, accept the impermanence of the world. " But many victims, even this support is denied. Philippe Pons Article published in the edition of 18.03.11 
Residents still seeking their relatives in the rubble. Others try to go on foot to escape the risks of radioactivity associated with explosions in several reactors. Where should they go? Nobody told them. The pages of letters to the editor of newspapers, which devoted more space than usual, are full of messages of distress.
Sent by fax or email, when possible, by residents of remote villages. Since Wednesday, March 16, it snows in northern Honshu Island, concealing a white layer of apocalyptic landscapes affected departments. Winter temperatures dropped a little lower, from -2 ° C - 4 ° C. The streets lined with ruins and debris are strangely silent.
More than 20,000 people remain isolated, without help, without food or water. This is the case of villages whose access roads have been cut, but the dust of islands along the coast. Some of their residents were rescued by helicopter four days after the tsunami: they had nothing to eat. Half a million people in 2400 bivouac shelters opened by local authorities.
They also suffer from the cold due to lack of fuel. Wrapped up his head, shaking pans around, they answered questions from journalists on television. Some tremble still others have struggled to hold back their tears. An elderly mother desperate to find her son ... to other, slaughtered, seem prostrate.
They wait without knowing what really because the only information they are being disseminated by television, adding to anxiety. They have lost everything and they might for those who are close to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, to be irradiated. Without being able to flee. For the mayor of the town of Tomizuka, not far from the plant, "the State shall specify the extent of the danger zone, and tell us where to go." The trucks are now refusing to approach the area where radioactive particles have been dispersed.
The crippling shortage of fuel aid: food supplies arrive in urban areas but can not be sent to the countryside. A Minami Sanriku (Miyagi Prefecture), a small town 17 000 inhabitants of which 10 000 are missing, the mayor, Jin Sato, received no directive from central government, if not ask people to stay home.
"I listen to the radio to know what is happening. The state has built these plants, it is up to him to help us," he said. Located in an area that could be irradiated, the town receives almost no relief in gasoline, medicines or food. Many elderly people are at the limit of their physical strength.
Six died of exhaustion and cold in a hospital in-Sen, whose heating systems were drowned by the tsunami. Some refused to leave what remains of their homes, preferring to await death. An old blind lady, living alone in Minami-Soma, was finally rescued four days after the earthquake: she did not understand what was happening, a recluse in his house collapsed half.
"I called the neighbors but no one answered," she said. Patients, diabetic or suffering from blood pressure drugs are not. Given the gravity of the health situation, Japan has allowed foreign doctors to practice in the archipelago. But so far, for want of fuel, medical teams were unable to reach hospitals still standing in the affected areas.
After the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, the government promised to mobilize hundred thousand soldiers. Some victims feel abandoned by the authorities. Letters to the editor of newspapers and blogs are also indicative of frustration and anger of the victims, who criticize people in Tokyo who "monopolize" the products being so lacking in those who were directly affected by the earthquake and the tsunami.
"This selfishness is indecent," wrote a reader of the newspaper Asahi. Many are without news of their loved ones. This is true of religions specialist Yamaori Tetsuo, a native of Iwate Prefecture. "I have to prepare for the worst," he wrote in Asahi, one can eliminate suffering, but we can at least be with those who are victims.
This, too, accept the impermanence of the world. " But many victims, even this support is denied. Philippe Pons Article published in the edition of 18.03.11
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