
More and more video evidence of the immense devastation wrought by the great tsunami which inundated Japan’s northern pacific prefectures continues to surface, with the spectacle of entire cities being swept away being captured on film by terrified onlookers,
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Otaku have been struck by the pathos of the below image, which may be disturbing to some:
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Complaints that Japanese hotels are treating quake victims from Fukushima prefecture as radioactive lepers and refusing them board have surfaced.
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Japanese police say deaths from the recent Sendai earthquake and tsunami, now upgraded to magnitude 9 and the 4th most intense in recorded history, will be measured “in the tens of thousands” amidst warnings of a likely magnitude 7 aftershock and an ongoing reactor crisis.
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A nuclear reactor in tsunami crippled Fukushima prefecture is suspected of having entered meltdown, and radioactive material has been released into the atmosphere during the incident.
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Even elections are not immune to moe marketing – the image above shows a recently spotted poster exhorting inhabitants of Fukushima Prefecture to vote in the upcoming elections for prefectural governor.
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A 30-year-old high school teacher has been discharged from her post as a result of the obscene acts she committed in front of her male students.
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Five schoolgirls, aged eleven and twelve, were assaulted by a drunk whilst riding a train home, and passengers in the carriage did nothing to help.
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A 13-year-old girl was found with her hands and legs bound and left in a shrine toilet, we hear. She was discovered by a passerby who promptly summoned police; she was, fortunately, yet unharmed.
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