Japan «difficulties»

I cant help but look at various sites and informations as this country I've been led to love, where I have been riding some of the best snow and terrain I ever dreamed of, and where my girlfriend Alice lived for two years, was struck by a terrible natural disaster.


I write «terrible natural disaster», but my friend Yosuke in Tokyo answered to my concerns on facebook this morning : «Hi.Mat.
Thank you for worrying about our thing. We work hard to put ones' efforts together, and to get over this difficulty.»

Anyway, here are some of my favourite news sources about this «difficult» situation (latest to oldest) :

- (màj 23/3) lots of Maps (french mainly) on the France Culture Globe blog post : Face à la Catastrophe, recours aux échelles géographiques

- Matt from AltJapan summarized the public data available on the nuclear situation in Fukushima

- The New York Times updated its infographics explaining the failure of Fukushima with another explaining How a reactor shuts down and what happens in a meltdown

- a Q&A «Meltdown Alert on Japan Reactor» on the BBC news website

- The New York Times published an interactive map of the damage

- Maggie Koerth-Baker explains how a power plant works and fails on boing boing

- an infographics about «How the Nuclear Emergency Unfolded» on The Washington Post

- Cristine Russel/The Atlantic «What the media doesn't get about meltdowns»

- a photo gallery by my favourite info site The Guardian : Japan before and after the Tsunami 

- an impressive and insightful diaporama from The Big Picture (Boston.com) 

- an image I saved from the www.jma.go.jp on friday :

I'll update this post...