Stranded and alone: The 75-year-old man found ALIVE at his devastated farmhouse four weeks after Japan earthquake and tsunami

Source: Daily Mail UK

He must have wondered whether he would ever be found. However, farmer Kunio Shiga was discovered alive and well - and sitting among the debris of his home - more than four weeks after an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan.

The 75-year-old was found with only a battery-powered radio for company, holed up in his small farmhouse which was surrounded by fallen trees, dead pigs and debris from the deadly tsunami on March 11.

Japanese Workers Braved Radiation for a Temp Job

 Source: NY Times

KAZO, Japan — The ground started to buck at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Masayuki Ishizawa could scarcely stay on his feet. Helmet in hand, he ran from a workers’ standby room outside the plant’s No. 3 reactor, near where he and a group of workers had been doing repair work. He saw a chimney and crane swaying like weeds. Everybody was shouting in a panic, he recalled.

Mr. Ishizawa, 55, raced to the plant’s central gate. But a security guard would not let him out of the complex. A long line of cars had formed at the gate, and some drivers were blaring their horns. “Show me your IDs,” Mr. Ishizawa remembered the guard saying, insisting that he follow the correct sign-out procedure. And where, the guard demanded, were his supervisors?