Japan tsunami clean-up: so much to do

Ian Thomas ash, a freelance documentary filmmaker, who has lived for 10 years in Japan is originally from New York. When earthquakes hit the magnitude 9.0 off the coast of the north-eastern Japan on 11 March, Ian felt its impact in the capital of the nation, Tokyo. The impact of the quake, tsunami, and the ongoing threat of radioactive fallout from Fukushima knit is a nuclear power plant 150 miles takes revenge.

Documented in a recent guest article for discovery news was Ian effects, which have the ongoing crisis in the population of the nation's capital. He wrote about what he saw hard hit during a trip to the city of Ishinomaki, one of the many cities by the tsunami. In this article and video documents Ian parts of the journey by a group of volunteers led by three brothers, the trip to tsunami devastated Ishinomaki city.

You can see more of Ian's documentary work, Ian's YouTube channel. He also regularly updates his personal blog, Ian document.

Wide angle: Japan in the crisis

Only a week before, was a close friend of mine trying to convince me that was different this time. She told me that the earthquake and the tsunami disaster in Japan on 11 March people somehow had changed, that had affected people by the tragedy as never before.

I suggested to her that it is always so when a tragedy strikes first: the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Hurricane Katrina. At the moment we all swear that this grief-stricken people see us altered has and that we would be never the same? That she would never leave our thoughts, and that we do everything we can to the lives of these survivors returned to at least a sense of normality?

This week I found myself in thinking, another dear friend of mine who works in New Orleans to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. When I speaking the work it is, people often say: what could there possibly to do? Katrina was almost six years.

Yes. That's the point. Katrina was almost six years, and there is still so much work to do.

Travel with me as I go north with a small group of volunteers to the tsunami-ravaged City of Ishinomaki.

The events of 11 March may have already turned off the front pages of newspapers of the world, but for the countless volunteers, they are still very much on the front of their heads.

There are already three weeks since the earthquake and tsunami hit. And, Yes, there is so much to do.

More by Ian:
22 March 2011: despite radiation fears, 'I'm leaving no Tokyo'
28 March 2011: after the tsunami ' be alive is enough '

Video credit: Ian Thomas ash

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