{"id":645,"date":"2012-03-13T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=645"},"modified":"2012-03-13T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T00:37:50","slug":"1st-anniversary-of-3-11-quake-and-tsunami-march-against-nuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/earthquake-related-updates\/1st-anniversary-of-3-11-quake-and-tsunami-march-against-nuke\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Anniversary of 3.11 Quake and Tsunami; March against Nuke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One year has passed since the nightmare earthquake and tsunami that took nearly 20,000 lives and triggered the terrible nuclear crisis in Fukushima.<\/p>\n

Still, 344,000 people are evacuating because their houses were destroyed or dangerous to live or they cannot work in their hometown.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday (3.11), all over in Japan held a great many of events to memorize the huge natural and man-made disaster.
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\"\"In more than 10 cities in Nagano, “Goodbye Nuke, No More Nuke, 3.11 Big March” was held and 6,000 people took part in total.<\/p>\n

In Matsumoto, 1,800 people gathered at Matsumoto Castle Park, prayed for the victims at 2:46 pm when the quake hit East Japan, and marched in the town up to Matsumoto Station.
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\"\"Nagano Prefecture has no nuclear power plant and Matsumoto is 300km far from Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant “luckily” — sorry for people in\/near Fukushima — so the current radiation detection values<\/a> are stable and much lower than the worldwide average background dose for a human being (0.27 microsieverts per hour).<\/p>\n

I think it is meaningful to express people’s voice from such a place using electricity made in other power plants in other prefectures.<\/p>\n

People are struggling with so many problems occured by 3.11 all over Japan.
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