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A few people have asked me about convenience stores and supermarkets since the earthquake. Most people are calmly going about their activities, obviously worried about images they see on television from Sendai and other parts of Northern Japan. We are hearing minute by minute reports of trouble at nuclear reactors and seeing scenes of towns like Minamisanrikucho which have been literally washed away by tsunami waves.
A few items left, but mostly gone
Depending on what you are buying there is still stock on the shelves
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Img #5521186967The aisle on the left used to have lots of instant ramen.
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Here in Tokyo the scene is quite different. Apart from some isolated damage to factories and some buildings, most of the issues we are facing are nothing like those in the North. The supermarket shelves look a little bare at the moment, but it is hard to say whether panic buying or just lack of incoming supplies is the problem. People don’t appear panicked and a shopkeeper mentioned to me that the truck supplies just were not arriving at the moment.
In general, life in Tokyo is quite orderly and people are not causing a panic. They seem more worried about their friends and family members who are suffering near Sendai.
From Monday we are expecting rolling power outages due to a shortage of running electricity generators. We are being asked to conserve power where possible, particularly as business get back to work.
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Japan's top government spokesman said a partial meltdown was likely under way Saturday at a nuclear reactor.Cooling systems have failed in three nuclear reactors at the same plant along Japan's northeast coast, following Friday's powerful earthquake and tsunami. Authorities have evacuated some 210,000 people within 12 miles of the plant, located 170 miles northeast of Tokyo.
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Security forces used tasers, tear gas, water cannons and live ammunition against the protesters, witnesses said.
A government statement said the forces moved against the protesters at the request of residents in the area who felt besieged. The statement said the live ammunition was used by unaffiliated "third parties."
Official: 'We see the possibility of a meltdown' - CNN.com
Tokyo (CNN) -- A meltdown may be under way at one of Fukushima Daiichi's nuclear power reactors in northern Japan, an official with Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told CNN Sunday.
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SENDAI, Japan — She scanned the landscape of debris and destruction, looking at the patch of earth where Japan's massive tsunami erased her son's newly built house so thoroughly that she can't even be certain where it once stood.
Satako Yusawa teared up but pulled herself together quickly. Because for the 69-year-old widow, there was this to be thankful for: Her son and his family were out of town when Friday's offshore, 8.9-magnitude quake sparked huge surges of water that washed fleets of cars, boats and entire houses across coastal Sendai like detritus perched on lava.
But her son had borrowed a lot of money to build that house, and had moved in only last month.
"This," she said, "is life."
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(Reuters) - A quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant reeling from an explosion at one of its reactors has also lost its emergency cooling system at another reactor, Japan's nuclear power safety agency said on Sunday.
The emergency cooling system is no longer functioning at the No.3 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, requiring the facility to urgently secure a means to supply water to the reactor, an official of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told a news conference.
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TOKYO -- International Atomic Energy Agency said Japan is evacuating 170,000 people from the area near a nuclear power plant damaged in the devastating earthquake and tsunami. The agency, based in Vienna, said the people were ordered out of a 12-mile radius surrounding the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. The plant exploded Saturday, destroying the building housing the reactor but not the reactor itself, and complicating relief and rescue efforts by authorities after Friday's twin disasters. The IAEA says another 30,000 people were moved away from the area around a second nuclear plant.
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More than 9,500 people are unaccounted for in Minamisanriku, a town of some 17,000 people, Japan's Kyodo News agency reported Saturday.
CTV's Tom Walters said the town is located on Japan's northeast Pacific coast.
BBC News - Japan earthquake: Explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant
A huge explosion has rocked a Japanese nuclear power plant damaged by Friday's devastating earthquake.
A pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima. Four workers were injured.
Japanese officials say the container housing the reactor was not damaged and that radiation levels have now fallen.
A huge relief operation is under way after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which are thought to have killed at least 1,000 people.