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One for All, All for Japan
Sticker found on a barrel next to a French restaurant in Iidabashi.
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Japan by BBC World News America
So according to BBC World News America, the second most important city in Japan is… Fukushima ! Oh yes, I can imagine that it is indeed very important for the international traveller to know the weather in the 77th largest city in Japan, a lot more important than Kyoto, Kobe, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Niigata just to ...
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One Year Ago
March 11th – 2011/03/11 A year ago on March 11th, we had just come back from our ski vacation in Hokkaido: I was working at home, my wife was on business trip in Osaka and my daughter was at her day care. At 14:46, I was in front of my computer writing emails when the ...
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Tohoku Campaigns
Campaigns for Tohoku (the region struck by the Earthquake and Tsunami) are everywhere in Tokyo. This one at is to promote travelling to Tohoku and can be seen in most railway stations. Without the nuclear disaster, they would have probably been less needed. Now with the fear of radiations in everyone’s mind (whether justified or ...
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Earthquake = Tsunami
Warning sign in Enoshima.
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Setsuden !
Display showing power consumption in Tokyo. As you probably know already, there are serious risks of power shortage in Tokyo for the summer. By the way I am wondering how much electricity this display consumes…
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Saving Electricity
Sign promoting electricity saving in Tokyo’s underground.
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Hot Summer
With the looming threat of rolling black outs, Tokyo embraces itself for a very hot summer due to limited air conditioning. You can therefore find various products for sale such as this one supposed to help you to stay cool.
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Earthquake False Alarm
Got a notification from France 24 on my iPhone claiming that Japan was hit by a magnitude 8.9 eathquake ! One hour later, I received this on my iPad : Les utilisateurs de l’iPhone ont reçu par erreur une fausse alerte pour un séisme de 8,9 au Japon – iPhone users have received a notification ...
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Milk and Yoghurt
First trip to Aeon since the great Tohoku Earthquake and glad to report that there is now as much Milk and Yoghurt as ever :-)
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How the 2011 Japan Tsunami happened
British documentary at its best : 46 min well worth watching explaining what happened on March 11th in Japan.
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Life Continues
Photos of my daughter from the evening of March 11th to last Sunday. I’m grateful that she did not fully realise what was going on around her.
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Sapeurs-Pompiers Monaco
Sapeurs-Pompiers from Monaco, back from Sendai, doing their laundry right in front of my house in Tokyo before heading back home.
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Deadly Radioactive Dust covers Tokyo
Those alarming photographs were shot this morning (26/03) in Tokyo ! As you can clearly see from the photos, a thin and suspicious yellow dust has accumulated on a balcony in Shinjuku ! It can be seen everywhere in Tokyo. I know from a reliable source – an english teacher from Australia based in Okinawa ...
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Flag at Half Mast
One of the few visible consequences of the Great Tohoku Earthquake here in Tokyo : a Japanese flag at half mast, here at the fire station close to my home.
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Parking Warning
Reads that if an earthquake of magnitude 5 and above occurs, do not operate the parking machine. In other words, if an earthquake of magnitude 5 and above occurs in Shinjuku, I am really stuck at home.
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Water Issue
The Metropolitan Waterworks Bureau announced on Wednesday that 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine (I-131) were detected on Tuesday in one liter of water at a purification plant in northern Tokyo. The Metropolitan government is calling on residents in Tokyo’s 23 wards and 5 adjacent cities to refrain from giving tap water to infants aged less ...
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Gasoline Finally
First time in almost two weeks that no restriction was imposed at my local gas station.
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Shortage Notices
The signs read that (I summarize) due to the Great Tohoku Earthquake, some items are short of supply. For instance: batteries, flash-lights, gas cassettes and cassettes-based gas stove. They also apologise and mention that unfortunately they do not know when new supply will be received – the main reason being that unaffected areas such as ...
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Cassette Feu
Present from Hiroshima to bring back to Tokyo. A cassette based gas stove is something that became impossible to find in Tokyo and is likely to become handy to cope with power cuts.
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川の字 – kawanoji
When the family sleeps on the same mat. Our short vacation in Hiroshima are coming to an end and we are heading back home – Tokyo – on Monday,