Photo credit My brother who works in Yokohama, Japan's second largest city after the capital Tokyo is back in the Philippines temporarily with his wife and 5 month old baby. He and his small family are among the thousands of foreigners who left Japan after a radiation scare (and most recently, water scare) that gripped … Continue reading Japan and a parent’s nightmare

I found this viral post in Facebook and I am reposting this in the wake of the earthquake catastrophe in Japan. Here are tweets from people in Japan, real life eyewitness accounts on how the country with people who are sometimes seen as 'cold' on the outside, emotionless, mechanical like robots acted in times of … Continue reading Tweets from Japan in the midst of catastrophic quake

As you might already heard by now or seen in television, a massive earthquake measuring at an intensity of 8.9 on the Richter scale hit the northeastern part of Japan (red circle on the map below) triggering a 10 meter high tsunami that literally swept the coastal towns. It was unbelievable to see the devastation … Continue reading Earthquake in Japan