Saturday, April 9, 2011

Japanese Refugees Living in Luxury Hotels

Akasaka Hotel
TOKYO - Japanese citizens who were left homeless by the earthquake and tsunami will be moved to a luxury hotel in Tokyo.

Excerpted from the Kyodo news agency, Grand Prince Akasaka Hotel has 700 rooms. The rooms at the hotel were given tariff for 150 thousand yen or approximately Rp15 million per night. The room will be a temporary home for 360 people displaced.

Room service will be eliminated, but the hotel will provide three meals a day and costs 300 yen, or approximately Rp30 thousand for breakfast and 500 yen, or approximately Rp15 thousand for lunch and dinner. However, residents will not stay charged.

Quoted by AFP on Saturday (09/04/2011), 40 floor hotel was closed in March after 55 years in business. Because of the demolition in July, then those who stay at the hotel must be moved.

"I feel anxious because they do not know what will happen in the future, but I'm grateful to sleep on the mattress now," said Shoichi Ono a refugee who came from Fukushima Prefecture.

Tens of thousands of people in Japan are in temporary shelters after the earthquake and tsunami struck on 11 March. Thousands of people were also forced to leave their homes because of the threat of radiation in the vicinity of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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