‘Voluntary shelters’ in quake-hit Japan pref. struggle to take in huge number of evacuees – The Mainichi

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1. **More updates:**

   ◆ https://twitter.com/mrjeffu/status/1744240007710474527

   > The Asahi reports that 20 earthquake evacuees in Wajima are living in a dirt-floored greenhouse. Water is leaking in because of the snow, and their futons are getting wet. https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASS184CJ8S18PQIP00B.html
   NTV has uploaded this news report, filmed on Friday:
   •one group of earthquake evacuees is living in a plastic greenhouse because the local community hall was full
   •other people are living in their cars
   •food/supply/manpower shortages continue
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxvSkzwyvc

   ◆ https://twitter.com/mrjeffu/status/1743868355113816555

   > Thread: TBS aired a report yesterday about the earthquake relief in the Noto Peninsula:
   •A veteran rescue worker from ARROWS was surprised at the very slow response from the Japanese government. Normally supplies and personnel arrive sooner.
   •Three days after the earthquake, an evacuee was frustrated because no food/supplies were arriving. He was not convinced by the government’s explanation about damaged/blocked roads.
   (After all, he could see that journalists were able to reach his town.)
   •They also spoke to a man whose family was trapped under their collapsed house. He said that his daughter was still alive after the collapse. Rescue workers came to help on January 3rd, too late to save her life.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnyI6bD_gxI&t=533s
   •A lot of media coverage has mentioned that the government has been unable to supply evacuees with enough food, water, and fuel, but have not really criticized the official explanation that more couldn’t have been done because of road damage.
   •This TBS report has shown that some evacuees and rescue workers are clearly disappointed in the government’s response to this earthquake and think more could have been done sooner.
   •It is also worth noting that BBC’s January 4th report from Wajima also said that help from outside was not arriving in a speedy manner.
   https://twitter.com/bbcnewsjapan/status/1742870994434630096
   https://www.bbc.com/japanese/video-67879073

   ◆ https://twitter.com/mrjeffu/status/1743825191179096317

   > It’s snowing in Wajima and other areas of the earthquake-hit Noto Peninsula today. This will probably further complicate the attempts to bring food/water to evacuees.

   ◆ https://twitter.com/mrjeffu/status/1743638030181703925

   > From TBS: An Indian woman cooked chicken curry for 100 people in Japan’s earthquake-hit Noto Peninsula. It looks like many of these elderly residents of Himi City had never eaten Indian-style curry before, but they were very happy and grateful.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUWeKth5bE

2. That is heinous. A greenhouse?!? It’s January. I saw this on the news this morning. It was leaking and it was starting to snow. They shouldn’t face hypothermia risks, not to mention toilets and bathing facilities. Surely the government can organize shelters, hotels, whatever in areas away from the affected areas.

3. Jesus, if the low populated areas have issues with this I can’t imagine what hell a major city is going to look like.