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With aid slow to come Japanese fend for themselves
KARAKUWA, Japan – There may be no water, no power and no cell phone reception in this tsunami-struck town, but in the school that serves as a shelter, there are sizzling pans of fat, pink shrimp.
Relief supplies have only trickled into the long strip of northeast Japan demolished by a powerful earthquake and the wave it unleashed a week ago, leaving affected communities to fend for themselves.
Many have risen to the occasion.
No water for the toilets? No problem. Students in Karakuwa bring buckets of water from the school swimming pool to give survivors the dignity of a proper flush. In the kitchen, a giant rice cooker given to the school by a resident sits on a table, steam rising from the heaping mounds of rice inside.
"For a long time, in the countryside, even if you didn't have enough for yourself, you shared with others," said Noriko Sasaki, 63, as she sat on the ground outside another relief center in the town. "That is our culture. Even if they're not relatives, we feel as if they're sisters or brothers."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_devastation
i hope that if my community suffers such a tragedy, that we come together like the japanese. its interesting that the stories coming out of japan (assuming true) are about people coming together and taking care of themselves. we don't hear much complaining about the government, again, if true and the news is not filtered. it strikes a stark contrast to some similar type situations in the US.
perhaps, as kennedy said, (changed for topic, same meaning) its not what our government can do for us, but what we can do for our government. we are the government. blaming the government over and over for every little thing accomplishes nothing. especially in times like japan is experiencing now. i don't know if their media is already blaming their PM like our media was already blaming our president at this point in time....but i doubt it, or else we would see it. instead, we see people working together.
KARAKUWA, Japan – There may be no water, no power and no cell phone reception in this tsunami-struck town, but in the school that serves as a shelter, there are sizzling pans of fat, pink shrimp.
Relief supplies have only trickled into the long strip of northeast Japan demolished by a powerful earthquake and the wave it unleashed a week ago, leaving affected communities to fend for themselves.
Many have risen to the occasion.
No water for the toilets? No problem. Students in Karakuwa bring buckets of water from the school swimming pool to give survivors the dignity of a proper flush. In the kitchen, a giant rice cooker given to the school by a resident sits on a table, steam rising from the heaping mounds of rice inside.
"For a long time, in the countryside, even if you didn't have enough for yourself, you shared with others," said Noriko Sasaki, 63, as she sat on the ground outside another relief center in the town. "That is our culture. Even if they're not relatives, we feel as if they're sisters or brothers."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110318/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_devastation
i hope that if my community suffers such a tragedy, that we come together like the japanese. its interesting that the stories coming out of japan (assuming true) are about people coming together and taking care of themselves. we don't hear much complaining about the government, again, if true and the news is not filtered. it strikes a stark contrast to some similar type situations in the US.
perhaps, as kennedy said, (changed for topic, same meaning) its not what our government can do for us, but what we can do for our government. we are the government. blaming the government over and over for every little thing accomplishes nothing. especially in times like japan is experiencing now. i don't know if their media is already blaming their PM like our media was already blaming our president at this point in time....but i doubt it, or else we would see it. instead, we see people working together.
