Japan's crisis: one month later (The Big Picture)

[pokerfan]

Japan is just in the beginning of the long term recovery effort from the earthquake that struck off northeastern Japan on March 11. The crisis alert level from the damage to the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant has now been raised to the highest level of impact, the same as the Chernobyl Russia incident 25 years ago. Searchers continue to look for the dead, displaced Japanese live in shelters, protests continue over use of nuclear power, Japan's economic engine may be disrupted, the massive cleanup of debris is just underway, aftershocks are feared and many continue to mourn those who were lost. The photos collected here are from one month to the day of the quake and beyond. -- Lloyd Young (36 photos total)







More here (36 photos total): http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/japans_crisis_one_month_later.html

[FeelingBlue]

1. Thank you.

:cry: :grouphug:

[Mnemosyne]

2. It got me too, FeelingBlue.

Feel so helpless... :grouphug::cry::grouphug:

[uppityperson]

3. Oh man. Cranes, sweeping the road, that little kid. k&r

[madokie]

4. When I see these pictures I just barely can keep from breaking down and crying

sometimes that ole keyboard is hard to see and brothers and sisters this is one of those times. I wish I could do something to make it go away but I'm helpless

[AsahinaKimi]

5. It will take a long, long , long time

for things to be right again. A long healing period for everyone there, including those outside the prefectures affected. My heart is with Japan.

Amerika ni iru kedo, kokoro wa nihon to tomo ni arimasu.

アメリカにいるけど, こころはにほんとともにあります.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. They are now in the recovery phase

and it will take anywhere from five to ten years... and that does not even include the issues of power. There is a valid reason for them going nuclear... see the history of WW II and what led to it. If japan wants to be a modern economy, it needs power...