20 Thousand People Reported Missing & Death, Japanese Crisis

Japan's post-earthquake condition

KITAKAMI - The Japanese government continues to struggle to overcome the nuclear crisis of the nuclear power Fukushima Daiichi. While the death toll and missing numbers is said to have touched the 20,000 in habitants.

To date 8133 people have reportedly died following the quake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale (SR), which shook Japan March 11 last. While the other 12,272 confirmed missing in the worst disaster that occurred in Japan since 1923 last.

In Miyagi Prefecture, which suffered the worst damage from the quake, which had confirmed the number of residents reached 4,882 people. However, according to police chief Naoto Takeuchi Miyagi region, it requires secure facility that can accommodate abody of approximately 15,000 people.

While approximately 500 thousand residents who survived now faced with the coming cold weather hit. This condition causes the state of the shelter residents into turmoil.

The earthquake also caused the children also become victims. Institute Save the Children states, approximately 100 thousand children were reported fleeing their homes due to this disaster. They also reportedly suffering from the trauma of this terrible disaster.

"We found many children who are in appalling condition. Theygathered at the emergency lights and wrapped in blankets potluck," said Save the Children spokesman Ian Woolverton told AFP on Sunday (03/20/2011).

Based on the information Woolverton, these children suffer frompost-disaster trauma is very deep. They even equate the post-earthquake conditions as well as the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which they knew from the lessons of history.