RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (PA) - dark ceremonies and moments of silence were planned Monday to mark a month since the severe earthquake and the tsunami that devastated the northeast coast of the Japan, killing all 25 000 people.
But with thousands of bodies still to be found, a tsunami flooded nuclear power still spewing radiation and more than 150,000 people living in shelters, there was little time for reflection on the worst disaster in the Japan since the second world war.
Some families took a preliminary step towards normality moving in houses temporary boxy, gray in this port city pulverized by the wave on 11 March.
When a lottery, the lucky first to this weekend. Each unit is only 320 square feet (30 square meters), but replete with modern comforts such as televisions, refrigerators, microwaves and washing - machines a welcome upgrade for the homeless, whose many slept on floors of gyms in the school for a month.
So far, there are 36 houses - one for each 50 candidates.
"It's a mystery how we have been lucky enough to be chosen." "It's like a dream," said Sakai Sasaki, 80, who lived with relatives.
The city wants to complete 400 units in eight different locations in mid-May, although it will always cover only about one-quarter of families in need. Other areas have similar plans, but the Rikuzentakata units are the first to be completed.
"When you think about feelings of the evacuees, we want to build their even one day more rapid, or make only one more," said Saeki Suga, an official responsible for the housing of the city plan.
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the tsunami that it generated flattened communities along hundreds of kilometres of coastline. The Government has estimated as the cost of damages resulting from the disaster could grow to $ 310 billion.
Ahead of the anniversary of a month, Hidehiko Nishiyama nuclear security official apologized for the concern and inconvenience caused by radiation spilling plant of Fukushima Dai-ichi, where disabled by the tsunami of cooling systems even if it have not been reduced and will likely not be for several months.
"We did all we could come to the extreme," Nishiyama, said Sunday. "" "". Unfortunately, we still cannot give any timeline when we can move on to the next phase, but we hope to achieve a cooling system sustainable, contain radiation and make the situation under control as soon as possible. ?
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. reiterated Sunday that he is not considering burying the hot concrete reactors, as did Chernobyl in 1986 when a reactor fire burned out of control. The Japan nuclear crisis is worse in the world since then.
The crisis caused several anti-nuclear demonstrations, but among the most important were held, Sunday, in a district of Tokyo where many students live. Thousands of people bearing signs "No nukes" gathered for a rally and then marched through the streets chanting and beating drums. Elsewhere in the capital, about 140 miles (220 kilometres) southwest of Fukushima Dai-ichi, demonstrators demanding the closure of a different plant also chanted "fukushima" as they walk through of the seat of the Government and past the nuclear and industrial safety agency.
Sunday also saw Japanese and American troops fan along the coast for another search all azimuth of organs by land, sea and air.
Television news showed heavy lift inland the tsunami washed boat so that they could find a car crushed under. No one was inside.
The Japanese military said Monday that us and Japanese troops find 103 bodies during the operation of a day, more than 70 they located in a three-day surge with more troops a week ago.
Only 13 000 deaths have been confirmed for the moment, and many organizations have probably washed out at sea and will never be found.
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has visited a city hard fishing Sunday and promised to help Government. It also stops to thank us troops for their efforts, particularly in the search for bodies.
"I thank sincerely you for your generous help, you have given us since the earthquake,", said the Prime Minister, whose Government has had disagreements with Washington on the relocation of a US base in the Japan.
Assistance "strengthens the relationship between the Japan and the United States." I will never forget your kindness for the rest of my life, "Kan said in comments by the Kyodo News Agency."
Yuasa reported Tokyo. Associated press writers Mari Yamaguchi and Mayumi Saito and producer of new Miles Edelstein in Tokyo and writer Jay Alabaster in Rikuzentakata has contributed to this report.
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