The traditional Japanese storyteller kneels in front of a room full of families that have lost everything - their homes, their loved ones, their entire town - and his face stretches into a broad grin. "There once was a samurai who loved to drink sake," he says, and begins to sway as though tipsy. The samurai story, a classic comedy hundreds of years old, normally draws a steady stream of laughs. But it gets only a few chuckles at this shelter for those who lost their homes in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP)
Two months after Japan's quake and tsunami catastrophe sparked a nuclear disaster, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko were to visit evacuees from the radiation zone on Wednesday. Tens of thousands have been forced from their homes in a 20-kilometre (12-mile) no-go area around the Fukushima Daiichi plant, where emergency crew are still struggling to stabilise the stricken reactors. The emperor - the living "symbol of the state and the unity of the people" - and empress were to visit evacuees near Fukushima City northwest of the stricken plant, and then the coastal town of Soma north of the plant. (AsiaOne)
The traditional Japanese storyteller kneels in front of a room full of families that have lost everything - their homes, their loved ones, their entire town - and his face stretches into a broad grin. "There once was a samurai who loved to drink sake," he says, and begins to sway as though tipsy. The samurai story, a classic comedy hundreds of years old, normally draws a steady stream of laughs. But it gets only a few chuckles at this shelter for those who lost their homes in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (AP)
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