Talked on Skype with Takashi and Sachiyo.

I could reach on the phone Mr.Hiroaki Watanabe in Sendai,a former collegue in Tomakomai Higashi Senior High School.He and his wife were safe. He said they were also suffering from shortage of gasoline and food. He also said two of his collegues lost their houses by the tsunami. I felt sorry for them and all the victims of the earthquake and tsunami.
In the afternoon,Takashi and Sachiyo called us from San Jose, California on Skype. They looked very well. They were worrying about the nuclear reactors damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima. But Takashi,as a scientist,said the level of the radioactives detected in vegetables,milk and well water around the power plant was not so high as it would have an influence on the health of people.
Yesterday,20th of March,9 days after the earthquake and tsunami struck North-eastern Japan, a 16-year-old boy and his 80-year-old grandmother were rescued from their collapsed home in Ishinomaki,Miyagi Prefecture. It is miraculous.