Disaster Report
Last Monday (Sunday in Brazil), a strong earthquake hit Niigata Prefecture hard. For more information, follow these liknks for information in English or in Portuguese.
Some friends have mailed me asking if I'm ok, if the quake affected me in any way, etc.. That's why I decided to write this entry to tell everyone I'm ok, and the quake didn't affect Kyoto much (the only effect I've felt so far was a major delay in JR trains on Monday).
This time I can say that, fortunately, I still have no earthquake experiences.
Talking about disasters, Brazil also had its worst air disaster ever this Tuesday (Wednesday in Japan). Some links with information in English and Portuguese.
Some say it was coming because of a previous accident which triggered a crisis. More info about the crisis can be found here. Other than the lack of investments in infrastructure I see little correlation between the two accidents... but there may be the core of the problem.
Anyway, I have a test tomorrow, so can't go deeper now.
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Added on Jul 19th
I've got a word that a former Brazilian exchange student who studied at Kyoto University was in that plane...
Some friends have mailed me asking if I'm ok, if the quake affected me in any way, etc.. That's why I decided to write this entry to tell everyone I'm ok, and the quake didn't affect Kyoto much (the only effect I've felt so far was a major delay in JR trains on Monday).
This time I can say that, fortunately, I still have no earthquake experiences.
Talking about disasters, Brazil also had its worst air disaster ever this Tuesday (Wednesday in Japan). Some links with information in English and Portuguese.
Some say it was coming because of a previous accident which triggered a crisis. More info about the crisis can be found here. Other than the lack of investments in infrastructure I see little correlation between the two accidents... but there may be the core of the problem.
Anyway, I have a test tomorrow, so can't go deeper now.
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Added on Jul 19th
I've got a word that a former Brazilian exchange student who studied at Kyoto University was in that plane...
1 comment:
Igor, vou escrever em português porque é mais rápido e não preciso pensar tanto. Uma das pessoas que estavam no avião é primo do seu pai, que morava em Maringá, e que era engenheiro. Ele tem um irmão gêmeo. O nome dele é Heurico Hiroshi Tomita. Nós nos encontrávamos com a família dele (talvez com ele) nas festas, funerais e missas. O irmão dele foi para lá tentar reconhecer o corpo. Nós estamos aguardando notícias.
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