4 months on, housing crisis continues for thousands (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Four months after the Great East Japan Earthquake, over 100,000 evacuees are staying in temporary accommodations--including about 24,000 people living in evacuation centers--according to government figures.

Also, more than 60 percent of debris in the three hardest-hit prefectures--Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima--has yet to be removed.

On Monday, the four-month anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, about 300 people, including bereaved relatives, attended a Buddhist ceremony to commemorate those who died and to pray for recovery at Fuseiji temple in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.

However, a clear outline for full-fledged restoration has not yet emerged under the stagnant administration of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, whose leadership has lost direction and who was recently forced to appoint a second disaster reconstruction minister little more than a week after the first minister was installed.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110711004891.htm

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Wow! They are really struggling to recover from this. :^(