Thursday, October 6, 2011

Is most of Japan alright now?

Question:


It's been around 7 months and they're being donated lots of money/stuff.
If anyone is curious about why I'm asking it's because :
-How fast people can recover and rebuild stuff after catastrophes like this
-For an Okami fanfiction story where they go to modern day Japan and heal the lands
(I need help on it too. If anyone plays the game, have any ideas?)
-I think Japan is a great place, and I wanna know how they're doin'
-My sister asked me yesterday

Sorry, I'ma hit you guys with a few more questions :
What parts of Japan are running completely normally now?
What parts were the most affected by the tsunami/earthquake?
What parts of Japan had a lot of destroyed houses?
How many died? About how many were hurt? Any of them famous?
What parts were the least affected by the tsunami/earthquake?
How was the more country-sideish part of Japan affected?
Where do the people who had their houses destroyed live?
What was the impact on forests and wildlife? How is it now?
Where did the nuclear power-plant explode? Is it under control now?

Answer:


Louis Irving's answer should have satisfied you.

Although the earthquake was very strong, so are Japanese buildings and facilities, so relatively few people died from the earthquake itself. The tsunami did the huge amount of damage, that is where you see all those blocks of houses destroyed.

For current death tolls, google it. For people who died from the earthquake itself, these tolls should be accurate by now. For people who died in the tsunami, the tolls are still estimates because a lot of bodies were lost to the sea.

In areas that were affected by the earthquake but not tsunami, things are back to normal now except people are traumatised. In areas affected by the tsunami, they have cleaned up much of the destroyed houses. Some of that land belongs to people who have now died. Survivors are either living in emergency accomodation, or homestays or they have moved away permanently.

The thing which is still ongoing is the power plant issue. It is still releasing radiation. This affects people differently depending on how close they live to the plant. Even if people are only receiving a small amount of radiation, they have a lot of psychological stress about it.

When you say "country-sideish", look at a map of Japan. The areas affected by the tsunami were coastal towns with relatively small population. The area affected by the earthquake is larger and contains Greater Tokyo which has a huge and dense population. The area affected by the radiation is hard to specify.

Since you can access the internet why don't you check news sources or Japan-based bloggers rather than asking here?

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