[BartSimpson]

Excerpted from an email sent out to California State agencies:

$1:

Google has set up a Person Finder in both English and Japanese: http://japan.person-finder.appspot.com/

The Japanese Red Cross Society (Nippon Sekijujisha) website is here, with links to both English and Japanese:
www.jrc.or.jp/english/index.html

NEWS RESOURCES
Live coverage from BBC News are at the following two links, with automatic updates streaming on the first:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709598
CNN provides coverage on the quake and Tsunami as well as warnings of other Pacific coast nations at threat:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiap ... an.warning

The Diplomat's Tokyo Notes provide news on the Earthquake here:
http://the-diplomat.com/tokyo-notes/201 ... ake-update

Numerous major Japanese newspapers are translated into English online at the following links: www.world-newspapers.com/japan.html;
including 4 of Japan's 5 major papers (excluding Sankei Shimbun, which is available in Japanese below):
Mainichi Shimbun: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/201 ... 0000c.html

Yomiuri Shimbun: www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20110311dy01.htm
Nikkei Shimbun: http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/freetop.aspx
Asahi Shimbun: www.asahi.com/english
For those who read Japanese, original online versions of all major Japanese papers can be found at this URL: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/japan.htm

[martin14]

Flash headlines:
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/

and I am following also on the Reuters site:
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

Live updates, links to other information and other media outlets,
hours ahead of BBC/CNN

[Robht]

Hi everyone, does anyone know which agencies are sending people to Japan to help with the relief effort? I know Samaritans Purse sent people to Sri Lanka to help rebuild after the tsunami they had, but all I can find online are links to donate money. If anyone knows of anything, I'd appreciate the help. Thanks.

[Brenda]

As far as I know, Japan has not asked for that kind of help. The help from not specialists, I mean.
Don't forget that Japan is not a 3rd world country, and 20 kms land inward, nothing is wrong.

I am sure that when Japan asks, the whole world will know. For as far as I know, there are several countries (including Canada and The Netherlands) which have offered their help from specialists, but are still waiting to hear and are not underway to Japan.

[BartSimpson]

Brenda Brenda:

and 20 kms land inward, nothing is wrong.

There's still considerable quake damage all over Japan. The bullet trains are mostly shut down due to damage and one of the lesser reported 6.3 to 6.8 quake (not an aftershock - but a quake on a whole different fault system) in Nagano, Niigata killed 4 to 200 people (varying reports) and damaged upwards of 200 commercial buildings and an untold number of homes.

The Japanese took a whoopin' in this.

[martin14]

Japanese Red Cross published in the afternoon these numbers:
2000 deaths are confirmed, must be assumed by a total of at least 10,000 dead.
2,000 people were injured.
530,000 people lost their homes and distribute emergency shelter to about 2,500 now.
24,000 people are still cut off from the outside world and if can, will be supplied only by air.
1.2 million homes are without electricity.
1.4 million houses have no water supply.
4700 houses were damaged.
50,000 houses were completely destroyed.
582 roads are broken or destroyed.
32 bridges have been destroyed.

And, rolling blackouts across Japan, with the reactors shut down they cant
produce enough electricity to go around.
Everyone gets a blackout for 3-4 hours a day.

[Brenda]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Brenda Brenda:

and 20 kms land inward, nothing is wrong.

There's still considerable quake damage all over Japan. The bullet trains are mostly shut down due to damage and one of the lesser reported 6.3 to 6.8 quake (not an aftershock - but a quake on a whole different fault system) in Nagano, Niigata killed 4 to 200 people (varying reports) and damaged upwards of 200 commercial buildings and an untold number of homes.

The Japanese took a whoopin' in this.

Absolutely. BUT, the devastation as shown on tv is not the whole country. Luckily...