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00:06Friday, March 11, 2011 started as a very ordinary day.
00:17There was this big,
00:30deep bass rumbling.
00:37We had no idea what was going on.
00:52And then we were just watching this wave, thinking, oh my goodness,
00:58this is really bad.
00:59Oh my goodness, this is really bad.
01:19At the Fukushima็ฌฌไธ nuclear power plant, one of the workers was handling radio active waste, and all the lights go
01:28out.
01:37And suddenly we were at the center of the world's biggest story.
01:51Oh my goodness.
01:54Oh my goodness.
02:14So yeah, I managed to find my portfolio 25th of January, 2011.
02:23So about two months before it happened.
02:28I was nine years old.
02:30I was born in Japan.
02:31So even though my mom and dad are French and English, I would say sort of in my heart,
02:36because I lived there for 13 years, I was born there, I grew up there, I would say at heart
02:40I'm Japanese.
02:46I was the Tokyo bureau chief for the Financial Times newspaper.
02:51I'd been working there for a few years, having been a correspondent in China and Taiwan, in the region as
02:59well.
03:01Japan has a very distinct and very interesting society and a very rich culture.
03:08So it's a great place to live and work.
03:17Around 300 kilometers north of Tokyo lies the coastal city of Ishinomaki.
03:27Richard Halberstadt taught English at the university.
03:31I was born in Reading in the UK, but I've lived in Japan for over 30 years now.
03:38Here in Ishinomaki City.
03:43Ishinomaki is the very typical small city.
03:49Its main industry is fisheries.
03:51And the reason I came to like it is not so much because of the place,
03:55but because of the people who were really warm and welcoming.
04:07Ryoko Endo was a nursing assistant.
04:10I was born in Tokyo in Nakano.
04:15I met my wife in Tokyo and I met my wife in Tokyo.
04:21I married 10 years ago,
04:24and I moved to my wife to my wife's house.
04:31I was very close to the sea from the sea,
04:33and there was a family of my wife's house.
04:40My wife and my wife,
04:45and my wife,
04:45and my children.
04:47I lived together with my friends.
05:00March 11th is spring vacation for the university,
05:04so we weren't teaching or anything like that.
05:07But for some reason, I don't know why,
05:09when I woke up,
05:10I didn't really have much to do at the university,
05:12but thought I'd go in anyway.
05:15I was working in the hospital,
05:18and I was going to work in the hospital.
05:20and I was probably coming in before I่ตทใใฃใ,
05:27and I had to go to school,
05:29and I was going to work in the hospital.
05:30the children were getting the most power to my mother and mother.
05:34I found out to school,
05:35and I was going to go to school.
05:43us it was just like any other Friday my brother he was three years old I think so then he
05:52was
05:52still going to nursery I was getting ready for primary school and my mom would cycle me
06:00I loved school a lot we had karaoke Friday which was a thing we had in the afternoons
06:06I was really looking forward to it was really fun
06:16it had actually been a fairly quiet period for news in Japan and one of my colleagues was wondering
06:22when things would heat up again and we'd start getting articles in decent places in the paper
06:29we had no idea what was going to happen next
06:37along the coast 40 kilometers west of Ishinomaki is the sprawling city of Sendai
06:45where you Muroga was preparing for an afternoon delivering medical supplies
06:53we had a very close house in the morning at home and in the morning
07:02we used to stop living in the morning and we had a very close job
07:03it was at home so we were taking some coffee
07:05we had a really close to the kitchen
07:06we were going to start with a lunch
07:12we had to go to the kitchen
07:15so we had to go to the kitchen
07:19we were walking back to the kitchen
07:21It was a high-quality system, and it was a high-quality system to set up a video camera for
07:28a house.
07:36When I entered the signal at the first time, the car was going to hit the car.
07:58I was sitting at my desk in our office building on the 21st floor in the Hibiya business district and
08:08suddenly I felt the rattling and the beginning of the sway.
08:26It started to tremble, it started to shake, all the way from nursing we would do drills, we would practice
08:36going underneath the tables, going to frames, like door frames,
08:41as a way to protect. Teacher just said, alright everyone, there's no desks, no tables in that room, so just
08:48huddle together in the middle of the room and we'll just wait for it to pass.
09:08When the shaking started, then it was just so bad that I had to just clutch hold of my desk
09:16to just stay standing.
09:27All the books were flying off my shelves, which was pretty terrifying.
09:38And when it goes by and it's still continuing to shake and then the trembling gets worse and worse and
09:44stronger.
09:47I had a fan that was above my head and a screw came loose and so it was just flinging
09:52and this one screw that was left.
09:55And I was thinking for myself, I hope that doesn't fall on me.
10:06It was very quickly apparent that this was a powerful earthquake and it was growing in power.
10:24The magnitude 9 earthquake was the strongest ever recorded in Japan.
10:30Local government officer Teruo Okono was working near Ishinomaki.
10:36I was working in the city of St. Kami-chami.
10:40I started working on the city of St. Kami-chami.
10:52The destination of St. Kami-chami.
10:55I saw a full-time fire and it turned out ofmi.
10:55There was a lot of noise, and the computer was on top of it, and it was on top of
11:03it.
11:05It was a little bit of an accident.
11:08I think it was probably 3 minutes later on.
11:15I thought that I was thinking about it.
11:25when I think when everything just got worse it started to drag on for a while
11:31and the shaking became much worse and then we could see our teachers
11:35expressions that that's when I think we knew something was wrong
11:53we didn't realize how bad this was and how bad it was going to be of course I worried about
12:01my mom
12:02and my dad and but I remember my main worry at the time was my brother and because he was
12:08at nursery
12:10and just you don't know it how your family is you don't know if they're safe if they've been injured
12:19I mean the power of the earthquake was extraordinary and we in Tokyo felt it as something extraordinary
12:31but if you were along the coast much closer to the epicenter it was for many people
12:38absolutely terrifying and right on that coast sat one of the world's largest nuclear power stations
12:48Fukushima Daiichi decontamination worker Yukio Shirahige was in a building at the edge of the site
12:58oh my god
13:00em
13:01you know
13:02you know
13:04you know
13:11you know
13:13That's what I think it's important to me.
13:15That's when the earthquake happened.
13:19The earthquake happened.
13:27The earthquake happened.
13:32There was a earthquake.
13:35There was a earthquake.
13:37There was a earthquake.
13:41But the area is getting worse, and we can't even stand on the ground.
13:54When the earthquake hit, safety systems automatically shut down the three active reactors.
14:01So, very crudely, the earthquake caused damage to the plant, but nothing that alone would have caused a crisis.
14:15For example, one part is that it destroyed a pylon and broke the connection that the plant had to the
14:23national grid.
14:24And it's one of the features of nuclear power plants of the type used at Fukushima Daiichi,
14:33that they need electricity to keep the reactors and the spent fuel that's kept in cooling ponds cool.
14:44After the chain reaction has stopped, it needs to be cooled down for a long time.
14:52Even though there was no power coming in from outside, there were emergency generators starting to kick in
15:00and providing electricity to pump in the coolants of the reactor.
15:09With diesel generators keeping the fuel cool, plant operators hoped the worst was over.
15:18But the six minute long quake left the whole country on edge.
15:25When the shaking eventually stopped, I think the teachers were trying to figure out what to do.
15:34I'd asked my teachers if I could be let go and they said, yep, that's fine.
15:38So, I got my bicycle and I started to cycle to my mum's office to try and find her.
15:46As I'm trying to get up this hill, I just remember feeling this panic of,
15:52it doesn't matter if something falls on me, it falls on me, I've got to get to my mum's office.
15:59I wasn't sitting on my bicycle, I was standing trying to get there as quickly as possible.
16:06Trying to dodge through people who are coming out into the streets as well
16:10and just feeling this feeling of panic and I need to get to my mum, I need to get to
16:15my mum.
16:23300km north, in coastal Sendai city, Yuma-roga was still on the road.
16:31There is a pretty heavy wind in the route of the wind.
16:37But when I was as a river to the river,
16:40it was also a river that didn't do not have to.
16:42And what I've experienced was,
16:49and I've missed the river that they had on the road.
16:50I used to have a river that was a river that was a river.
16:51At that time, the road was a river that there was a river that is up to me,
16:54so a river's river that could get down,
16:54but the river was around.
17:03The storm has still been in the middle of the day.
17:08The storm has been in the middle of the day.
17:15The storm has been in the middle of the day.
17:20It has been a lot of concern with the storm.
17:34We didn't have any news, we had no idea what was going on, and I didn't really have a chance
17:43to be worried about anyone, because everything was just happening all at the same time, and
17:49it was all so surreal that we were kind of just more occupied with coping for ourselves.
17:56Riyoko Endo was on the fifth floor of the hospital.
18:00It was a big hit, and there were a lot of things, and the patients were scared, so we were
18:09scared.
18:30My mom's office is on the fourth floor of the office building.
18:36But the lifts aren't working, so I was running up the stairs, and I remember just bursting
18:42into her office.
18:45It was such a relief to see her.
18:48I just ran straight into her arms, and I think I just cried.
18:54We cycled home together, and I remember seeing my brother, and that feeling of, thank goodness
19:02he's all right.
19:08The earthquake's epicentre was traced to the ocean floor, around 80 kilometres east of
19:14Ishinomaki.
19:17So the immediate aftermath of the earthquake for us was realising that we were actually not
19:26at the centre of it, and as soon as the Japanese television was reporting, as they did quite
19:36quickly, that the epicentre was off the coast, then it became possible that a damaging tsunami
19:45could be on the way.
19:50We were all gathered together, first in the university canteen, and then when the tsunami
19:58warning was issued, then that meant we should get to higher ground.
20:09So we all moved to a big classroom on the third floor.
20:16There was so much happening that it wasn't really, my head couldn't cope with everything
20:21that was going on, really.
20:45As a journalist, I don't want bad things to happen.
20:52I like reporting good news, but it was always in the back of my mind that it might be on
20:59my watch that a very large disaster might happen.
21:06One of the first things we did was to switch on the television and see what on earth was
21:11going on, because for all we knew in that moment was that we had an earthquake.
21:16But what we didn't realise was that it was so big that then it had caused a tsunami.
21:28And that's when I remember just seeing the wave making its way to that northern coast, thinking,
21:38oh my goodness, this is, this is really bad.
21:42let's see.
21:46Let's see.
21:48Let's see.
21:54Let's see.
21:57Let's see.
22:05Let's see, I've been waiting for a lot of time.
22:15The first time I saw the tsunami, it was the first time that the tsunami came from back to the
22:20back.
22:26I saw it in the mirror, and I saw it in the camera.
22:33Then, the tsunami came from before.
22:55The tsunami came from the face of the stormed ัะตะบ in the middle of the storm, but I thought I
23:03couldn't get it.
23:03The tsunami came from before, and I thought it would have been possible, but not in a few seconds,
23:09After that, the car was moving slowly.
23:15The car was moving from the front of the car,
23:18and the car was moving from the front of the car.
23:21I felt the fear of dying,
23:56The tsunami struck a long swathe of Japan's east coast.
24:02Swamping harbours, rivers and low-lying areas.
24:44I was still thinking we might be reporting mainly on deaths from falling buildings.
24:52But from the reports that were coming through from Japanese media,
24:59it was clear that the tsunami was likely to be the real killer here.
25:10Near Ishinomaki, Teruo Kono was sheltering in his office a few hundred meters from the coast.
25:20The tsunami struck a lot.
25:30The tsunami struck a lot.
25:33So I couldn't be able to see the situation outside.
25:41The sound of a strange sound came from outside,
25:45and I saw that the tsunami came from a small river,
25:48and I saw that the tsunami came from the first time.
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32:29of people who had lost loved ones
32:36very likely because those loved ones
32:38had been trying to look after each other
32:41or trying to find them rather than just fleeing.
32:45And that's a kind of very human dilemma.
32:54There were people who were having to stand by
32:58very close to their neighbors,
33:02sometimes their loved ones being washed out to sea
33:04without anything they could do to save them.
33:13Ryoko Endo hadn't heard from her husband
33:15or her three children since before the earthquake.
33:41Ryoko Endo
34:00While Ryoko waited for news, further south, Fukushima Daiichi was also directly in the path of the tsunami.
34:09Yukio Shirahige was sheltering on the land side of the site.
34:20Ryoko Endo
34:23There was a video of the tsunami that came out of the tsunami that came out of the tsunami.
34:32Ryoko Endo
35:01Fukushima Daiichi was
35:03protected by a five-and-a-half meter high tsunami defense wall you know tsunami is not just like a
35:12wave it is it is like a rise of the sea level with a very strong force so tsunami came
35:21over the defense shield flowed into the power plant pushed away all the cars and the other installations
35:33around the reactor and then it hit the reactor buildings
35:42no one knew if the plant could survive a direct hit
35:51meanwhile the extent of the damage to coastal communities was dawning on residents like social worker Mizuei Kano
36:02I was working in the city of Okumaๅ็บใใ4ใญใญใใใใฎๆใงๅใใฆใใพใใๅคงๅคใชใใจใซใชใฃใฆใใใ ใจใใใใจใๅฎๆใใ้ ใซ
36:16้ไผๆใๆดฅๆณขใงๆใฃใฆใใใใใจใใๆ
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36:35ใในใฆใฎ้ป่ฉฑ็ทใ้ปๆฑ ใๅใใฆใใพใใพใใใฎใง้ป่ฉฑใใงใใชใใชใๆฅใใใใใใจใซใใใใฐใซใใๅ็บใฎใใจใซใคใใฆๅคงไธๅคซใใฃใฆๆใฃใฆใใพใใใงใใ
36:40100km north residents of coastal cities
36:43like Sendai and Ishinomaki
36:45were facing a freezing night
36:47without power
36:50the whole central area of the city
36:53had been flooded
36:54and that meant I couldn't get back into the central area
36:57either to where I live
36:59or to anywhere else I wanted to go
37:01so I ended up just sleeping at the university with many of the other staff
37:09Yu Muroga took refuge in a warehouse above his wrecked van
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38:02็ชใฎๆนใซ่ชๅใใใใงใใใฉใๅคใฏ่ตคใ่ตคใ็ใใฆใพใใใญใใจๅซใณๅฃฐใงใใญ็ใใใฎๅฉใใฆใใใฃใฆใใๅฃฐใ ใฃใใใจใใฉใคใๆใฃใฆใไบบใใใใชใใ ใใใใชใซๅใใฃใฆใฉใคใใง็
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38:11I hated sleeping and going to sleep because at least if I were awake, then I could quickly
38:21move or find my parents or get to safety.
38:26And so when aftershocks would happen in the middle of the night, I'd have to run down
38:30the corridor to find my parents, but I always had this sense of anxiety and it started to
38:40get worse and worse.
38:42And even through all of that, I've always wanted to protect my brother.
38:48I think even though I've overcome all the events, thinking about him is still the thing
38:58that gets me the most upset, I think.
39:15Teruo Okono woke up in the house where the tsunami had dropped him.
39:19Teruo Okono woke up in the morning, but...
39:26I feel that during the night of the life of the headache, I was still in the middle of the
39:33mind.
39:33I feel like I'm feeling the most upset that I was in the middle of the morning.
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39:59ไฝไธใค้ณใใใชใใฃใใฃใฆ่ชๅใฎไธญใงใฏใใๆใฃใฆใใใงใใใ้้ใใชใใใใใใชๅฐ้ณฅใฎใใใใใจใๅคๅใใฃใใจๆใใใงใใใฉใ
40:08็งใฎ่ณใซ่ใใใฆใใใฎใฏใใ็ก้ณใฎไธ็ใใใ่ใๆใฆใ้ขจๆฏใ
40:11There were a lot of people who were looking for their family.
40:20When the tsunami came up, they would get away from their family.
40:24So, it's a matter of time.
40:33When I was in the morning, I had a little bit of water from the top.
40:42I went to the bottom of the top of the water and I went to the bottom of the water.
40:52It was a hole in a hole, and I was separated from the road.
40:56I didn't know where the road was.
40:57Then, everyone said,
41:01I'm going to go home.
41:10Financial Times Bureau Chief Muir Dicki headed for the disaster zone.
41:17we have a responsibility as a journalist to
41:21report the big stories as best we can and i felt that we needed to go to the area
41:27it was very challenging to get there but that was proud to be on the ground to see what's
41:32really happening to people here behind me is a sign put there to show visitors and residents
41:39of this area that beyond that point is at risk of tsunami flooding but the waters this time
41:47came far far further the earthquake had caused relatively little damage to property but it was
42:03relative normality compared to the sudden shock as you came down off the hills
42:09towards the coast you could see a line drawn across the land and on one side of it where
42:17the tsunami had hit just absolute devastation it looked to me and to many other people who
42:25saw it as as if we had walked into the kind of scene that you see in old newsreel of
42:34the
42:35hiroshima or nagasaki after nuclear bomb that kind of leveling of whole towns
42:43the evidence is everywhere of the incredible power of the tsunami
42:47buildings have been mashed and mangled beyond repair trucks picked up carried distances and
42:52then dropped on piles of debris those who didn't flee in time had little chance
43:02those who could fled the devastation including mizu a who was heading for her family farmhouse in the hills
43:11they had all to be in the city of sicaken up to be a little bit
43:13the most important thing that took place is at the intersection of the
43:26land from there and the wind was running along the hill
43:36the city was running until after the storm came down
43:37and it was all the wind coming down
43:38because of the storm came down
43:38and the storm came down
43:38there in the air
43:39there was a lot of rain
43:44Finally, Mizue reached the safety of her farmhouse, but the nightmare was far from over.
44:10My colleague and I were driving into southern Fukushima Prefecture.
44:17We weren't actually in communication with the outside world.
44:22And we went through an area which did have mobile signal,
44:29and I saw my BlackBerry light up with multiple messages from editors in Hong Kong saying,
44:38call, call, call. So I rang and I heard the line which felt like something out of a movie.
44:47They said, there's been an explosion at the nuclear plant. Turn the car around and drive south.
45:04It was sort of a Chernobyl moment.
45:07My view was that, oh, this is not the worst case yet.
45:13There was a lot of fear in Japan. People were scared. The Prime Minister was scared.
45:24There was a lot of fear in Japan.
45:25I've never seen any gas masks.
45:29There was a lot of fear in Japan.
45:31There was a lot of fear in Japan.
45:37If this were to be a really significant release of radio activity, would you have to evacuate Tokyo?
45:44The news on the radio was talking about the Fukushima reactor, but we were so busy trying to look after
45:50ourselves.
45:52He was just crying and shouting, and I couldn't do anything for him.
45:58I was going to school. I didn't see the children's face.
46:03I was going to walk through the school.
46:05I didn't see the children's face.
46:06I was going to walk through the school.
46:08I didn't see the problems it was the same.
46:08I didn't see the things that wanted to be.
46:12The information for any of the issues raised can be found online at
46:16channel4.com slash support.
46:18And you've more from Fukushima, days that shocked the wild half-ten tomorrow night.
46:22Super Surgeons is next tonight.
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