My family and I are safe, and all of my colleagues here seem safe, too, as far as I can contact (all do not live in the most affected region).

However, the event has not ended yet.

Let me summarize what happened here in Tokyo from my eyes.

It began with a huge earthquake even in Tokyo.

I was working in my office.

The quake originally happened in Tohoku area, but as it was so huge, it caused some other repercussions in the neighboring south, which caused another big earthquake offshore to north Tokyo an hour after the first attack. And also caused another big one an hour later in Nagano, far away from the original place. In my office, many books fallen down and caused some damage.

In TV in my PC showed devastating broadcast in many places on time, huge tsunamis all over, exploding oil/gas tanks, fires over wide areas, destructed houses, etc.

And all the trains/subways stopped even in Tokyo.

So I walked home (10 km) spending 1h45mn.

On the way there were huge crowd everywhere trying to walk home, which made everyone hard to walk smoothly, but calm dominated everywhere.

The disaster still continues. Tsunami casualties are not predictable.

Many are still missing (seems more than 10 thousand), even with places having huge banks (10 meter high)(they had bad experiences of tsunamis in the past, so they were prepared. Totally unfortunately, this time tsunami surpassed all of human imagination and preparations).

With so many aftershocks, now the new nuclear issue is developing.

The energy company working with the government is trying very hard to calm it down, which seems not going better yet.

As for megalopolis like Tokyo, due to the stopping of traffics, many things are now disappearing from supermarket, such as bread, milk, veggies,,,.

Yesterday, the energy company started a "planned blackout" in rotation due to shortage of electricity.

Even so, we, Tokyo residents, are in the safer and are able to do our own work in more comfortable place than those who suffered directly. Hope everything will recover soon.

Ken'ichi