Japan: Villagers pick up the pieces after devastating earthquake

Japan: Villagers pick up the pieces after devastating earthquake

In the region around the city of wajima whole streets show the story of what’s happened here people’s lives their homes ripped apart so many reduced to Rubble 2 days on and the cleanup has barely begun there hasn’t been time to take stock or consider how life here gets put back

Together Miko’s family has lived here for Generations they all survived she thought they would not so this is your house wow oh my gosh I’m so sorry coming wow she shows us around the wreckage of her home she has no idea how they were built or what happens

Next I’m at a loss I’m at a loss I couldn’t do anything and I don’t know what’s going to happen now I feel fearful and Powerless over 30,000 people in this region have lost their homes or are not safe to stay in them most of them were told are

Elderly there are whole streets here that have just been totally devastated you can see these cracks in the road and a sense of just how traditional people’s lives were wicker baskets houses made of wood these delicate materials that just stood no chance and the devastation well it continues all the way up this

Street window the further we drive towards the epicenter the worse the roads become small cracks become great crevices and our phones alert us to the fact that the tremors are not yet done around 10 km from the hard hit city of wajima we can go no further and it’s here we meet Takoya

Yamagishi that was your home yeah and you walked to here and that took you five 5 hours 5 hours he’s journeyed on foot in the pouring rain to meet a car here he’ll collect supplies and then walk them back into his stranded vulnerable grandparents there is he says no other

Way everything Shook and houses collapsed he says there’s now no water no gas no electricity nothing so tired but I’m relieved I’ve been saved these personal plights are not lost on the rescue teams their task is now more about recovering the Dead the numbers they think will rise

Further this is the worst situation I’ve seen he says it’s really terrible local leaders have implied government help has come far too slow indeed the full scale is still hard to assess at the moment it’s obscured by the chaos Helen an Smith’s Sky News in wajima City region Western Japan

In the village of Kuroshima, near to the epicentre of the Noto peninsula earthquake, homes didn’t stand a chance.

Whole streets are destroyed or badly damaged as locals brace for more suffering ahead.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/it-will-take-years-to-rebuild-villagers-pick-up-the-pieces-after-devastating-japan-earthquake-13041440

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