Some good news..

[concertigrossi]

My friend from high school, Yuko, is Ok. She's been living in a blackout zone for four days, but she's ok.

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[stasia]

GOOD! I hope she continues so!

Stasia

[soubie.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

My college friend Yuriko has actually just moved back to Sheffield to be with her boyfriend (who she met while we were there.) Her family are all from Tokyo, I think... I've not heard anything from her in person.

I suddenly realised just before I went out to the drama group where I help out on Monday evenings that one of the children there is from Japan (or first-generation migrant- she has a Derbyshire accent); however, the group leader asked her right away and she says her whole family are in a totally different part of the country.

I know this sort of thing doesn't make anything better. But I think one does try to make sense of it by just tracking known individuals. (I know two couples in Christchurch as well; one were okay, the other two their roof fell in- while the guy was on the phone to his parents in England, bizarrely- but they were okay, they even put a tarpaulin over it and moved back in within the week.)