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Japanese Quake Survivors Long For News
Voice of America ^ | May 11, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 05/11/2011 1:43:28 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

A new survey finds privacy and hygiene issues among the top concerns of Japanese earthquake survivors two months after the March 11 disaster that smashed the nation's northeastern coast. They say lack of information is also a problem.

National NHK television marked the two-month anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami on Wednesday by reporting the findings from interviews with more than 400 survivors at temporary shelters and other locations.

About 120,000 people are still housed in temporary shelters. Asked what bothers them most, 38 percent of those interviewed cited a lack of privacy.

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan
KEYWORDS: earthquake; japanrecovery; march11; tsunami
National police said the death toll two months after the earthquake stands just short of 15,000. Almost 10,000 others still are unaccounted for, down from more than 17,000 shortly after the quake.


1 posted on 05/11/2011 1:43:34 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

I stopped to stare at a picture of an evacuation shelter in Kesennuma. Perfectly clean and tidy, well cared for of course...but I would probably go insane living in those conditions while trying to accept the destruction of so much of life as I had known it. This should be the picture: http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/2011/05/90478.html


2 posted on 05/11/2011 2:00:16 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote; snowsislander

That is no way to live for more than a few days, and they have been doing so for 2 months.

There was going to be pre-fab housing set up in some areas; do not know how that is coming along.... so pinging one who might know.


3 posted on 05/11/2011 2:21:24 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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