Images Of Devastation In Japan A Month After The Earthquake

[MNeagle]

Images Of Devastation In Japan A Month After The Earthquake


It has been a month since the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan on March 11.

The country is still buried in rubble and the end of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant is not in sight.

Evacuees live in makeshift camps and sift through household remains to try to find some of their belongings.

http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4da8af32cadcbb27440a0000/japan-post-earthquake.jpg

Read more/slideshow: http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-japan-post-earthquake-2011-4##ixzz1Jet2e6OX

[keehah]

Livestock left to perish in zone
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/89126.php

(Yomiuri, Apr 21) More than 600,000 domesticated animals have been left behind within the 20-kilometer evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant since local livestock farmers evacuated more than a month ago. As of Tuesday, about 30,000 pigs, about 600,000 chickens and about 3,000 cattle were still in the evacuation zone, the Fukushima prefectural government said. Many of them are believed to have starved to death. As for the livestock that are still alive, farmers want them put down instead of letting them die from starvation. But administrative offices have said they cannot deal with the matter until radioactivity leaking from the plant is brought under control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVAorP4J5L4
Link: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110420004883.htm

[lapis]

Wow, that's a really depressing video! :'(