A week into Japan?s crisis, when many of my spooked friends had
already decamped west, south or abroad, I urged my pregnant partner Nanako to leave
Tokyo for the apparent safety of Kansai. She wasn?t happy and
for good reason: I was staying behind, her parents were in Tokyo and she knew
nobody in Osaka.
Two days before, my sister and boyfriend had cut short a holiday
in Japan and flown to Hong Kong after a painful haranguing from my mother in
Ireland.
Before Nanako and I left for Shinagawa Station there was another
strong earthquake, a report on the radio about potentially catastrophic
radiation from the Fukushima plant and a warning by the Irish Embassy in Tokyo that pregnant women should avoid the capital.read more
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