I clearly remembered what happened one year ago. At the time I stayed in my office, which was located on the 35th floor of the tall building. Suddenly we felt big shaking, literally the ground moving, and almost everyone ran out from their rooms. Even a quite heavy copy machine began moving because of the strong shaking. The shock continued more than a few minutes due to the huge energy of the earthquake and the architectural structure of the building to ease the shock, which is typical for tall buildings recently constructed in Japan. I really cared about safety of my wife and our baby because our baby was still two months old then. However, my cell phone, including email, did not work at all and the security of the building required us to stay the floor because the building was designed to withstand such a huge shock but outside of the building would be dangerous, when things would fall easily due to the shock or road might be damaged. After several hours, we were allowed to go out home. We had to walk down on stairs from my floor though, because none of elevators was working then. Of course all of subway stopped too. I was really surprised to see many people walking to their home on foot outside. Fortunately my apartment was relatively close so it took me about one hour to get from my office to my home. It was still unbelievable experience in my life.
I know the area severely hit by the earthquake still spend pretty tough time to recover from the damage partly because of the impact of nuclear material emitted from the damaged nuclear power plants in Fukushima prefecture. I hope the day when people will be relieved will come as soon as possible.
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