The massive earthquake once in a thousand years upgraded to mag.9.0.

The massive earthquake which happened in the Tohoku and in the North Kanto district on Friday was upgraded to a magnitude of 9.0. This scale of an earthquake is said to happen only once in a thousand years. The tsunami which ensued after the quake devastated almost all the cities,towns and villages along the coast of the Pacific in Tohoku and Northern Kanto. The number of the people killed or missing are far over 10,000, and many were injured. A historical disaster in Japan.
The atomic power plant in Fukushima was broken down, and the cooling system of it is not functioning. The Tokyo Electric Power Co. is now pouring sea water to cool it.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. started power outage in Kanto because of electricity shortage, but it was put into execution later than it had planned. But train services were mostly paralyzed in Tokyo area. Comuters were crowded in and around every station, and many of them coulden't arrive at their offices in time. Are there better ways to save electricity? How about forbidding night businesses? I always think there are too many vending machines everywhere. Can the number of them be reduced?