Another update from our friend Shizuko:
Dear Luana,
I hope you and your family are keeping well.
Slowly but surely, reconstruction of devastated areas has started to move.
Gasoline and heating oil started to arrive and gas stations will be able to open business tomorrow morning, even though it is still
in the limited areas. There are already a long queue tonight. When a reporter asked some of them what they would like to do first.
A man said he would go to find missinhg families and friends. Another said he would go to confirm a body of his relatives.
According to a funeral director in Kesennuma City of Miyagi, an area most badly hit, there are still 500 bodies and it may take till the
middle of April to carry through the cremation. Some people in the isolated areas cannot come to receive the bodies.
Children at Evacuation Centers:
Like everybody else, even children are finding what they can do.
– A group of small primary school children are offering a massage to elderly;
– A group of older children are visiting homes of elderly asking what they need badly;
– Another group are delivering to elderly, who cannot walk, their meals.
The removal of wreckage including cars started.
Radioactive substance has been found in green leafy vegetables like spinich and milk in Fukushima prefecture where the nuclear-power
generated plants locate. Whole matters have been very heavy in your heart and mind.
I must stop now.
A bientot,
Shizuko
