Story of Japanese Citizens Seeking Their Families After the Tsunami

Japan ravaged by the tsunami as high as 14 meters. One of the severely impacted areas, the Miyagi Prefecture. This area now looks like a stretch of terrain with the carcasses pile of iron, wood, and the human body.

As reported by Time, Tuesday (15/03/2011), Roads in Sendai, the capital of Miyagi, wet with sea water and mud puddles. Some residents appear to be on the road, looking for missing relatives.

One of them is Masahira Kasamatsu (76), a farmer from outside the city of Sendai. Masahira came with his wife Emiko to find his most precious treasure, Yoko Oosato, his daughter who lives in Sendai. "I'm looking for my son. His name is Yoko Oosato whether you see it?" Masahira said.

Masahira daughter, Yoko, have lived in Sendai for more than 30 years. Her daughter worked at the Sendai Airport who took part destroyed by the flood of sea water and earthquakes. Airport itself was filled with debris, mud, the carcasses of cars and planes. Masahira told, after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 and, with his wife, he went to Sendai to drive their personal cars, to search for Yoko. 

Masahira contact her since the tsunami struck Sendai, unfortunately the phone calls is not bearing fruit. It took 3 days to reach Sendai. The roads leading to Sendai Airport barely passable. In the middle of the road, vehicle fuel discharged Masahira, Masahira and Emiko spend the night in their cars, without heating and fuel. 

The next day, Masahira decided to walk to reach Sendai airport. "I know so many died in the airport," he said. When entering the airport Sendai, Masahira can see car pile as high as 6 meters and a few pine trees that break down the walls of the building. "I know that my child may be only one, among so many dead. But my deepest hope is that he is still alive. That's the only prayer now," said Masahira. 

Not only Emko Masahira and searching for 'treasure' hers, thousands of Japanese families continue to look for their relatives who disappeared after the tsunami struck Japan's largest ever. In northern Japan, the family continues to search for their missing relatives. They still do not know whether the people they love are still alive or already dead. Some 10,000 people remain missing to this day.

Japanese Quake

powerful earthquake measuring 8.9 hit northeastern Japan, on Friday afternoon, and caused many casualties, fires, and tsunami of about 4 meters along the coast of the country. NHK television reported, and witnesses.

After a quake measuring 8.9 that, there are also a number of strong aftershocks and triggered tsunami warnings as high as 10 meters. The quake caused buildings shook in the capital Tokyo.

Television pictures showed the brunt of flood debris of the building. NHK television showed flames and black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, Tokyo suburb. Fast train north of the country that was terminated.

Black smoke is rising from the industrial park in Yokohama area Isogo. Television footage showed the boat, car and truck floating in the water after the tsunami hit the town in northern Japan Kamaichi. A bridge, its location is unknown, appears to have collapsed into the water. Kyodo said there were reports of fires in the city of Sendai in northeastern.

"The building shook for what seemed a long time and many people in the newsroom took their helmets and some got under the table," said the correspondent of Reuters , Linda Sieg in Tokyo. "Maybe this is the worst earthquake I have felt since I came to Japan more than 20 years ago." The passengers on the subway line in Tokyo scream. Goncangannya very strong and very difficult for people to remain standing, "says Reuters , Mariko Katsumura.

Hundreds of office workers and shoppers spilled into the street in shopping centers Hitotsugi in Akasaka, central Tokyo.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) had earlier stated that the quake measuring 7.9 and centered at a depth of 24.3 km about 130 km east of Sendai, on the main island of Honshu. However, the agency later said the quake measuring 8.9.

Pacific coast in northeastern Japan, called Sanriku, has suffered from the earthquake and tsunami in the past. Last Wednesday, the area was hit by an earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude. In 1933, an earthquake measuring 8.1 Richter in the area killed more than 3,000 people.

Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the most seismically active regions in the world. About 20 percent of an earthquake measuring 6.0 magnitude or more occurred in Japan.