![]() ![]() ![]() The world community continues to raise aid for the civilians in Japan, whose lives were devastated by this massive earthquake and deadly tsunami that followed shortly after on March 11. Furthermore, most embassies are still functioning here,” revealed the officer from the Visa department.Ī large clean-up and restoration project remains in place across the northeast of Japan following widespread devastation and the loss of more than 27,000 lives. We have also adopted a wait and see approach, analyzing news reports and briefings by the local Foreign Office. ![]() There are still other individuals who have decided to stay and rebuild their lives.Īs for the nuclear threat, “we do have a contingency plan. Some have opted to relocate within Japan while others have chosen to visit family in Pakistan. Almost all citizens have been accounted for. The areas ravaged by the earthquake and tsunami were mainly Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, the northern parts of Honshu and revealing a total of only 200 Pakistanis at best. Reflecting census figures of 2008 and adjusting for proportional increase, 90 per cent are largely concentrated in the Kanto region on Japan's largest island of Honshu. The remainder are either working in factories/industrial units and scrap yards or are simply unemployed. A significant number are also working in the white collar sector. Most are engaged in reconditioning vehicles while a fair number own restaurants, Halal food outlets and carpet shops. This includes roughly 1,000 Pakistanis who are undocumented or illegal.ĭemographically, the overwhelming majority are males within the age bracket of 35-45, belonging to Gujranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot and Karachi. “There were around 30 Pakistanis in the Fukushima prefecture, who have been evacuated while there is no Pakistani in the danger zone now”Īs revealed by another senior embassy official in the Visa Office currently, there are approximately 11,000 Pakistanis residing here in Japan according to official estimates. The volunteers are not only helping find displaced Pakistanis but also are helping the Japanese community in the post-tsunami troubles. The consulate has also been helping dispatch volunteers in difference prefectures. He said the Consulate has been very vary of the situation and had immediately launched a helpline for Pakistani residents in all the prefectures throughout Japan. Jam Alam Afridi who is the Press Consular in Japan said that, “His dead body has been sent back to Pakistan” and “there have been no other casualties or unknown displacements of Pakistanis in Japan.” One of the victims of the tsunami was from Pakistan. “These heroes will and must be remembered for keeping the nation together, even though we seemed to be losing something as precious as lives we have realised we are a nation that can best survive any disaster.” Harris Mathura boasts with pride. There are many other stories from Japan that are evident of heroism amongst the nation, from a school sports teacher who saved the children in just eight minutes to those who are still helping the community by working day and night in search of those who have been lost or displaced. Like those 50 workers at the Fukushima nuclear reactor, who have stayed at their posts, fighting to avoid a meltdown while the entire region is evacuated. If there's any comfort at all to be taken in the awful catastrophe in Japan, it is in these stories of true heroism. One co-worker told Miki’s mother, that he saw Miki being swept away by the tsunami wave.” “Miki Endo did not let go of her microphone, even during the very moment the black waves of the tsunami engulfed the city, so that every last villager could hear her warning call. Mathura advocated that Endo stayed at her post, repeating her warning, until the wave struck. Of the 17,000 residents, 10,000 are feared to be dead, but the 7,000 who survived owe everything to Endo. The city was one of the hardest hit along the Miyagi Coast. If it wasn’t for her I would have been dead by now.” He said “I heard her voice throughout the way as I quickly packed and fled the Coast within minutes. One of them was Harris Mathura who was visiting the Coast for business. It wasn’t in vain she saved more than 7,000 lives that day, by giving her own. “Please run away fast” and she kept on doing it until it struck her. This young 25-year-old worker at the Crises Management Department was alarming villagers about the tsunami, ensuring that her voice be reached as far and beyond as possible, for as long as possible. Miki Endo, was hit by the black waves of tsunami that engulfed a small city at the Miyagi Coast, while she was screaming on the radio, something of urgency. Japanese firemen search for bodies in Minamisanriku, Myagi province, two weeks after a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged northeastern Japan. ![]()
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