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Since last week we are starting to have aftershocks of magnitude larger than 7, during last month we had hundreds of aftershocks but always smaller than 7. One of the aftershocks of last week, a 7.1 earthquake with epicenter near Fukushima, caused “only” three deaths, four fires and a strange “luminescence phenomenon” in the transformers [...]
On Sunday I go out to the street to walk around the city. 80% of subway lines in Tokyo are already running and we can move with certain liberty. I can see how the Shinkansen service to the south-west of Japan is running smoothly: Bullet train coming out of Tokyo Station on Sunday morning. There [...]
I receive e-mails from colleagues and friends that can’t go home, others say that they have been walking for seven hours, almost 30km. Hotels in downtown Tokyo are full. News from the situation in the north continue to arrive and the number of victims starts to grow. I have to sleep next to a backpack [...]
More and more people come to the park. I sit down in a rock next to some bushes with flowers, but just after sitting down I feel how the rock starts to vibrate. Trees and lamp posts around the park shake following the aftershocks that arrive every 10-20 minutes. We are still trying to use [...]
We calm down as the tremors of the earthquake start to decrease. The water in the fish tank is running through the floor approaching our feet. I feel very dizzy, my hands and my jaw are shaking out of control. My colleague Wada-san is the first one to stand up, even though we are still [...]
I work in the 11th floor of a 12-floor building built by Shimizu Corporation in 2009; the building is supposed to withstand very powerful earthquakes. Shimizu Corporation is one of the world leaders in earthquake-resistant construction technologies. I was working in the 11th floor of this building. We were in a meeting room in the [...]
The Tokyo Marathon, one of the most popular marathons in the world, was held some days ago in Tokyo, more than 30,000 runners participated in it. Some people was not happy enough only by running the 42 km, they wanted to do it with a costume! There is fabulous compilation of pictures in Un Gato [...]
There is a new supermarket cash register in Japan that instead of making the usual “beep” every time you swipe a barcode product through the scanner it makes a cat meow. They say it is more fun for the kids. Another thing is that the clients are the ones that have to pass the products [...]
