The last samurai - Japanese survivor found a month after the tsunami.

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”.

Japan update: 2 lucky tsunami survivors found after 9 days

Incredibly, rescuers found 2 more survivors on Sunday, 9 days after the tsunami hit!

An 80-year old woman and her 16-year old grandson trapped for over a week under the rubble in their own house, living on yogurt and scraps of food salvaged from a refrigerator and surviving the cold from the snowstorm last week without any electricity. Extremely lucky and resilient - that's how I can describe them!

The will to live made them both strong enough to endure everything nature threw at them. Yesterday, the young man managed to pull himself though a hole in the roof and alert the rescuers nearby. They were both showing signs of hypothermia, but were still conscious and happy to be alive after such an ordeal.

The latest official figures after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan show 8,277 dead and 12,722 missing.