2011年9月23日金曜日

5.3 meters to east south-east

Oshika Peninsula moved to east south-east by 5.3 meters by 3.11 earthquake.
This peninsula also sank 1.2 meters.

A lot of land along the coastal area sank, which cause flood at high water.





92.5%

92.5% of death is caused by tsunami.

People were drowned and freezing to death.
Even though they were helped from water,
sea water with sewage and oil from cars and boats
damaged lungs, which caused deadly sickness to
elderly people.

Only 4.4 % is crushing death and 1.1% people is death by fire.

2011年9月20日火曜日

8 days

A politician, Ryu Matsumoto was appointed as the Minister of Reconstruction
on June 28th, 2011 and resigned on the 5th of July because of his verbal abuse.

Day 1: "I hate both The Democratic Party and Liberal Democratic Party. "
       * This is actually favorable impression to the citizens as we were sick of both parties.

Day 4: He apologized for this comment.

Day 6: He visited the governor of Iwate prefecture.
         He gave a soccer ball with message by KICKING it.
          "We don't help you if you don't give us ideas"
         "I'm from Kyushu(southern part of Japan),
           so I have no idea which cities are located which place."
         "Construction of temporary houses is not OUR job, but YOURS."

        Then he visited the governor of Miyagi prefecture.
        He got upset that the governor was not waiting for him
        at the reception office and had to wait for 90 SECONDS.

       When governor Murai showed us, Matsumoto rejected to shake his hand.
         "You must welcome the guest in the room.
          This is pretty obviouse among self-defence forces (you were belong to)
              because they understand seniority system well. "
         
        Also he said to people from the media.
       "If any one of you write about this, you are OVER."

      ONE of the local stations broadcast it.
      (they didn't write because they were told not to!)

             Starting by this, his fiasco is out by all the media.    

Day 7: "I'm from Kyoshu area, so my way of speech is harsh a little bit."
         "I'll apologize if my comment hurt feeling of people at the areas."
         "My blood type is B, so I got sometimes too simplistic."

Day 8: He resigned.
        " The reason is very personal and I'm not going to talk about it."
        " I really want to thank my family."
       (To the media )" Please insert this comment at the beginning of my speech ( when you broadcast this)  'I would like to apologize for all my comments that hurt people at affected area'"


What he did is to delay the reconstruction work and to put people of B blood type and from Kyushu in an unfavorable position.


        

74 out of 108

At a primary school in Ishinomaki city, the city was among the most seriously affected,
74 students out of 108 failed to escape with 10 teachers out of 13.

It was the worst case caused by several factors.

- There were only young teachers with no experience of tsunami.

- The principal was absent on that day.

- The manual was strict to a rule that children can go home only with their parents.

- The path to escape to the hill is closed to the river.

- They could not hear or watch the tsunami coming.

- The city had estimated the tsunami cannot reach the place.

Some parents lost one kid, two kids or whole kids.


I can't imagine how they can overcome this nightmare.



4086 missing

As of September 11th, 15782 people died because of the earthquake and tsunami.

4086 people are still missing.
Troops of the Self-Defense Forces and police officers are looking for them
under the debris and in the water.

Debris of 23 Years

Miyagi prefecture has 23 years' worth of debris because of the earthquake and tsunami,
which is about 1800000 tons.
Yet, cars, ships and sediment washed by tsunami are not included.

The governor of Miyagi tries to process within 3 years.

The expense of disposal is decided to be paid with national budget.



3000 Railroad Professionals

 The whole Tohoku Shinkansen came back to life by 3000 professionals.
There were 1700 damages within 536km caused by the earth quake on 3.11.


3000 professionals of railway construction work came to
tohoku area right away from all over Japan to fix railroads
having a lot of aftershocks.

There were many professionals who had worked at the site
that Kobe earthquake hit on Jan 17th, 1995.

There was an instruction that they learned from Kobe earthquake.

On April 29, Tohoku Shinkansen overcame this disaster
and Tohoku area could link to Tokyo easily.