Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited two shelters in the city of Asahi and talk to victims of the earthquake and tsunami last March 11
TOKYO, April. 14, 2011 .- The Japanese emperor, Akihito, visited on Thursday for the first time the area devastated by the earthquake of 11 March and the subsequent tsunami and knelt on mats (Japanese mats) to show solidarity with the survivors, who were inclined seized of emotion in gratitude.
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited two shelters in the city of Asahi, where they talked with survivors at community centers that have become their temporary homes.
Asahi, about 86 kilometers (54 miles) east of Tokyo near the Pacific coast, is one of the most southern areas affected by natural disasters March 11 that killed at least 13,400 people - more 14,800 others in the list of missing - and triggered a crisis of radiation leaks at a nuclear plant flooded.
An evacuated affected by Down syndrome, who have difficulty speaking, wrote in a notebook a sentence to show the royal couple. "Keep fighting" was the message I was the emperor and empress.
In Asahi, where some 3,000 houses were damaged or destroyed, killing 13 people, the royal couple watched with gestures of concern and a damaged area where the debris is cleared.
In total, some 140,000 people still living in shelters after losing their homes or recommend them to evacuate their own due to radiation leaks from nuclear plants in Fukushima Dai-ichi.
Although the authorities have insisted that the situation on the ground is improving, the crisis has continued, accompanied by setbacks and aftershocks of magnitude 9.0 that have prevented the cleanup of debris and restoration of the cooling systems .
The accumulation of failures has angered and frustrated residents of nearby areas because their lives were disrupted by the crisis.
"I am physically and mentally exhausted," said Yoshihisa Kato, a Japanese of 66 years who owns a noodle shop in the village of Kawamata, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the nuclear facility in an area that is to be evacuated because of concerns of radiation.
Japan acknowledged this week that in general the radioactivity and catapulted the worst crisis of its severity on an international scale and now is on par with Chernobyl, but only a tenth of the radioactivity released into the disaster of 1986.
A new fault in the cooling system of fuel used in nuclear plant in Japan on Thursday caused an increase in radiation, but an overall reduction in leakage allowed the police to look closer than ever to the complex to the victims of the tsunami.
Hundreds of policemen wearing white protective suits are searching for bodies among the rubble outside the nuclear plant that was damaged by the tsunami, for the first time in a radius of 10 kilometers (six miles) around the complex.
The police reported that a decrease in the levels of radiation allowed to search a narrow radius around Dai-ichi. But they're working very carefully to avoid breaking his protective suit.
"We need to work very carefully to avoid breaking our suits with the debris, metal and chunks of concrete scattered throughout the area," said Sato, a policeman who gave only his surname.
Meanwhile, police continue to search for human remains delicate.
Police believe that the area of Dai-ichi could have 1,000 bodies of victims missing in the tsunami of 11 March.
TOKYO, April. 14, 2011 .- The Japanese emperor, Akihito, visited on Thursday for the first time the area devastated by the earthquake of 11 March and the subsequent tsunami and knelt on mats (Japanese mats) to show solidarity with the survivors, who were inclined seized of emotion in gratitude.
Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited two shelters in the city of Asahi, where they talked with survivors at community centers that have become their temporary homes.
Asahi, about 86 kilometers (54 miles) east of Tokyo near the Pacific coast, is one of the most southern areas affected by natural disasters March 11 that killed at least 13,400 people - more 14,800 others in the list of missing - and triggered a crisis of radiation leaks at a nuclear plant flooded.
An evacuated affected by Down syndrome, who have difficulty speaking, wrote in a notebook a sentence to show the royal couple. "Keep fighting" was the message I was the emperor and empress.
In Asahi, where some 3,000 houses were damaged or destroyed, killing 13 people, the royal couple watched with gestures of concern and a damaged area where the debris is cleared.
In total, some 140,000 people still living in shelters after losing their homes or recommend them to evacuate their own due to radiation leaks from nuclear plants in Fukushima Dai-ichi.
Although the authorities have insisted that the situation on the ground is improving, the crisis has continued, accompanied by setbacks and aftershocks of magnitude 9.0 that have prevented the cleanup of debris and restoration of the cooling systems .
The accumulation of failures has angered and frustrated residents of nearby areas because their lives were disrupted by the crisis.
"I am physically and mentally exhausted," said Yoshihisa Kato, a Japanese of 66 years who owns a noodle shop in the village of Kawamata, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the nuclear facility in an area that is to be evacuated because of concerns of radiation.
Japan acknowledged this week that in general the radioactivity and catapulted the worst crisis of its severity on an international scale and now is on par with Chernobyl, but only a tenth of the radioactivity released into the disaster of 1986.
A new fault in the cooling system of fuel used in nuclear plant in Japan on Thursday caused an increase in radiation, but an overall reduction in leakage allowed the police to look closer than ever to the complex to the victims of the tsunami.
Hundreds of policemen wearing white protective suits are searching for bodies among the rubble outside the nuclear plant that was damaged by the tsunami, for the first time in a radius of 10 kilometers (six miles) around the complex.
The police reported that a decrease in the levels of radiation allowed to search a narrow radius around Dai-ichi. But they're working very carefully to avoid breaking his protective suit.
"We need to work very carefully to avoid breaking our suits with the debris, metal and chunks of concrete scattered throughout the area," said Sato, a policeman who gave only his surname.
Meanwhile, police continue to search for human remains delicate.
Police believe that the area of Dai-ichi could have 1,000 bodies of victims missing in the tsunami of 11 March.
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