12 Mar 2011

Earthquake: Japan's difference over Haiti

Have flown to Shanghai and on to Osaka and I’m now on bullet train to Tokyo. 

 We shall then proceed by car to Sendai which is the worst affected city (One million souls). 

 The death toll is still clarifying.  Amazing arriving in the south of Japan to find sublime normality yet people obsessively reading newspapers, listening to the radio and watching television on their mobile phones.  And yet and awareness of what we have seen on our own mobiles of devastating scenes and devastating power.  Trying to work out whether one of us should go to the nuclear plant.  We hope to transmit tonight from Sendai.

 The contrast with Haiti where infrastructure was so crude and here where it is so sophisticated, is acute. The death toll will reflect it.

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