Cherry-blossom viewing

Spring is the time for cherry-blossom viewing in Japan.  It is late blooming this year more than 7 days.  Japanese people enjoy that they drink and eat with their family or friends.  We visited Negishi shinrin park in Yokohama having lunch box Kana made.  The day was really perfect weekend it was sunny and almost no winds and cherry-blossom was full bloom.

Fukushima nuclear power plant

My home town is Iwaki in Fukushima where there are the nuclear power plants.  My parents and my sister live there and it's 40 km from the plants. When the plants damaged on March 11, they were not forced to stay at home and to evacuate from their area by Japanese government but cars of Iwaki city council had been running with announcement to people to stay at home. At that time, water had stopped and foods in supermarkets had been shortage for the earthquake.  There were no public transport that railways and highways were seriously damaged, and petrol ran out at all over the city. Many people wanted to use their cars to get water and foods and to leave their home but they couldn't.  Anyway when they need water and foods, they had to go out , and at the same time they were frightened by nuclear radiation.
On March 16 midnight, my family finally evacuated from Iwaki city.  They were not sure, if they had enough petrol to reach my home in Yokohama. But luckily, they were able to arrive here...
Now life line like water, foods and petrol in Iwaki have recovered but still many aftershocks and nuclear problems has continued.