Food-one of the major topic of TV discussions in Japan and evening fun of many people. Japanese people love taste a delicious food from local production prepared in expensive restaurants. In these days however there is a question-mark above food produce in Japan: Is it polluted by radiation from crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant or not ????? and if yes, how much it can harm us ?????
Even 4 month after devastating tsunami situation is still critical. Heavy smell is from damaged fish factories, fibers of asbestos from damaged concrete buildings are everywhere, still thousands people stay in shelters.
Minami Saoma major has been pointed as bad major in Japan, because he openly (by You Tube) said that, that people from his city are suffering from luck of support after earthquake March 11th. He has been invited to talk in Foreign Correspondent of Japan in ToKyo.
1 month after Tohoku earthquake there are still very little visible changes in affected cities. People already don't suffer by hunger, but till now the biggest effort has been to find alive victims of tsunami.
Villages around Kamaishi were pretty high above the sea and also far away. But earthquake generated several waves which pushed the water many kilometers against the stream of local river. People did not expect that water could travel so far and remained unprepared. It cost them their life. Water was quick and damaged everything even in those further places.
Kamaishi was a port which even had a great barrier againt eartquake waves, however it was only 3 meters hight. Quake was only 70 Km far away of the shore on March 11th and waves exceeded all expectations. People from places closer to the cost got often stuck in trafic jam while trying to escape and those from further places did not expect that the water could reach them. Thousands of them died.
One of the biggest disaster had happened on March 11th in Japan. Ofunato used to be nice, quiet fisherman town with beaches ranked like one of the nicest beach in Japan. It is gone. Earthquake under the sea, only 70 km from the shore, created two 10 meters waves which washed out this town. Water had been pushed by second wave so high, that it exceded all expectation.
...a port just few meters above the sea level. There was nothing what could stop two huge 10m waves. March 11th was a bad day for this town. Almost no houses had been broken after the earthquake, but because horizontal fall of sea bottom was 5m, it created two 10 meters waves which washed out this town. Estimation only for this small town is 850 dead toll 1700 not found.
Fast action should be done to help thousands people from the North cost of Honshu in Japan. Many came and donated money and required things in Metropolitan government Building at Shinjuku.
Japanese army on the way to the Sendai / Fukushima to help survivors of Tsunami. A rest on parking area of highway.
An adaptation of the 1987 worldwide bestseller by Haruki Murakami, directed by the renowned Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung ("The Scent of Green Papaya", " The Vertical Ray of the Sun") and starring two of Japan's most popular actors.
Bouldering is a one of the fastest growing sport in Japan. It's a great fun, which is very popular among young Japanese people from many reasons: it's a group fun which doesn't cost much, you don't need almost any climbing equipment except climbing shoes and climbing boulders are usually located in very nice nature spots.
Costplays are very unique in Japan. They don't shy to show up at the street. This time they show up for a reason - Makuhari Messe at Tokyo O'Daiba hold the biggest convention of costplays in Japan. Huge number of costplay's makers came to exhibit their products and hundred of costplays came to be photographed by crowds of exited amateur photographers. Costplay scene is really huge in Japan in these days.
You can see tattoos in magazines, you can see tattoos in tattoo shops, you can see them in exhibitions. But nothing is like seeing tattoos in the flesh: real, living flesh, in front of your eyes. And nowhere better to see that than the famous, and utterly fantastic, Asakusa Sanja festival: one of Japan’s best live gallery for all the color and art of traditional Japanese tattoos.