Every now and then details came from Japan regarding people and animals found stranded in remote or deserted villages almost one month after the 9.0 earthquake. Rescue workers, journalists, and people who happened to be in those areas rushed to help those lucky to escape the deadly tremble followed by tsunami but also to inform the world about their deeds.
The latest report of this kind is about a 75 years old Japanese farmer found by a journalist, on Friday, April 8, stranded alone in Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, inside the 20 kilometer radius evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex.
He seemed to have locomotor problems and was unaware of his wife’s whereabouts. He was a sort of the last samurai of Minami Soma who fought for his life ever since authorities had ordered evacuations and his neighbors have all fled his city. Rescuers found him surrounded by fallen trees, dead pigs and garbage strewn by the horrifying March 11 tsunami in Japan.
Kunio Shiga mentioned that the tsunami came just a few yards off his doorstep and his only connection with the world was a battery-powered radio he had listened for days in his home with no electricity, running water or heating. Shiga recounted his traumatizing experience, how he had nearly starved, with no electricity or running water and no rescuers ever coming for him. The farmer agreed to be taken to a shelter.
A relatively long list of persons and animals stranded in different places in Japan after the earthquake stirred distrust and rumors that these are fake reports, invented to attract attention and increase mass media audience. Some openly stated that “they do not buy this anymore”.
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