The Untold Story of Japan's Tsunami Refugees

MORELAND HILLS, Ohio, Dec. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ --  An E-book relating the dark, depressing story of Japan's 300,000 tsunami refugees, and why their plight is unknown outside of Japan.

On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake struck Japan's main island, Honshu. The temblor's impact was devastating - destroying or damaging nearly 1,000,000 buildings and homes - but the subsequent tsunami was much worse. Less than an hour after the quake ceased, a tremendous surge of black water pounded the northeast coast of the region called Tohoku, devastating about 400 kilometers of the shoreline. More than 500,000 people chaotically evacuated the coastline. Nearly 20,000 Tohoku residents died. Over 300,000 survivors lost everything to the raging torrent – their homes and all belongings. Of the Tohoku region's more than 300 anti-tsunami barriers which equaled or exceeded national standards, 200 utterly failed – a fact publicly presented here for the first time. Only one failed anti-tsunami barrier has received the attention of the Press – the off-shore wall at Fukushima Daiichi which caused its nuclear crisis. The 200 other protective barrier failures have been disregarded.

Kimin tells us how the worst natural disaster in the history of Japan became buried beneath an avalanche of reports exploiting apocalyptic nuclear accident scenarios and radiation fears. The E-book follows the chain of events in Tokyo that caused the world's Press to focus on the Fukushima accident at the expense of those who suffered the horrific aftermath of the tsunami. The plight of the 3/11/11 tsunami victims was the top news story in the world until the wee hours of March 12, when the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi began. In less than a week, news of the tsunami's aftermath and the state of its surviving victims had virtually vanished from the world's Press, supplanted by the evolving nuclear crisis. The news media's disregard towards the tsunami victims continues to this day.

The narrative also covers the on-going conditions found in the cities and towns crushed by the black wall of water two years after the torrent subsided. During the more than two years following 3/11/11, the international Press has regularly reminded the world of the plight of Fukushima's evacuees, but virtually nothing has been reported concerning the dire situation with the tsunami refugees. The book also reveals that tsunami victims receive relatively little government compensation to help pull them out of their misery. While the situation with the Fukushima accident evacuees is worthy of Press coverage, the worse conditions with the tsunami refugees should be of equal importance, at the very least. Sadly, this has not been the case. The tsunami victim's suffering has cried out for succor, but precious little has come their way.

The Press occasionally posts uplifting articles about the very, very few tsunami victims who have gained some semblance of recovery, giving the world a false impression. We find the deplorable condition with the vast majority of Japan's tsunami victims is ignored both inside and outside Japan. This E-book shows us why Japan's tsunami refugees call themselves Kimin: Japan's Forgotten People.

Now available at all E-book sites, including Amazon/Kindle and Barnes&Noble/Nook.

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