Lack of Media Coverage Concern for Some Quake-Hit Kumamoto Areas
Kumamoto, Sept. 2 (Jiji Press)--While a shopping mall explosion and areas struggling with water outages following a massive earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture in late July have made major headlines, people in some quake-affected areas in the southwestern Japan prefecture are concerned about the lack of media coverage on their damage. There have been differences among areas in the amount of d...
The recent earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture has left some affected areas concerned about the lack of media attention on their specific damages, despite the widespread coverage of a shopping mall explosion and water outages. Differences exist among the regions in terms of the amount of donations collected under the furusato nozei tax program and the number of disaster relief volunteers who arrived on the scene.
Tragically, the earthquake claimed 38 lives, with nine fatalities resulting from a chimney collapse at a paper plant in Yatsushiro and seven deaths linked to the shopping mall explosion in Kashima.
The cities of Uki and Yatsushiro, as well as the town of Hikawa, faced a month without running water. Misato, a neighboring town, saw about 30 percent of households suffer damage to their homes, but there were no reported fatalities. In the Shimobaru district, numerous homes bore red stickers warning that entry was dangerous for individuals.
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