Earthquake. Tsunami. Nuclear crisis. Now rolling blackouts, food shortages and queues for petrol. Tokyo residents started the day viewing images of Japanese military helicopters trying to douse overheating reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant with large buckets of seawater.
“I was really scared,” said Kazumi, a professional woman who left the capital for western Japan. “It looked like things were getting worse by the hour and it was impossible to know what would happen.”
Like many, she was confused by the barrage of often contradictory information and rumour, by the appeals for calm and tales of foreigners and Japanese alike fleeing Tokyo for fear of radiation.
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