onegai!!!! >_<
(Source: stilettosandcream)
It has been a year since the triple disaster hit Japan on March 11th 2011.
”In the 65 years after the end of World War II, this is the toughest and the most difficult crisis for Japan.”
- Former prime minister Naoto Kan.
9.0 -magnitude undersea megathrust earthquake of the Pacific coast of Tōhoku (東北地方太平洋沖地震 Tōhoku-chihō Taiheiyō Oki Jishin) occured at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) in the north-western Pacific Ocean. The aftershocks will taper off in time, but could continue for years.
The earthquake, which was caused by 5 to 8 meters upthrust on a 180-km wide seabed at 60 km offshore from the east coast of Tōhoku, resulted in a major tsunami that brought destruction along the Pacific coastline of Japan’s northern islands and resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and devastated entire towns.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) is a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the earthquake and tsunami It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
The Japanese National Police Agency confirmed 15,850 deaths, 6,011 injured, and 3,287 people missing across eighteen prefectures, as well as over 125,000 buildings damaged or destroyed. The earthquake and tsunami caused extensive and severe structural damage in Japan, including heavy damage to roads and railways as well as fires in many areas, and a dam collapse. Around 4.4 million households in northeastern Japan were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water.