The over 100,000 homeless Japanese are starting to be to a normal life three months after the devastating earthquake/tsunami combination. 15,000 people died and 8,500 are missing. Planting trees, clearing debris, and reopening family businesses are some of the things citizens are getting around to. Miranda Leitsinger and Jim Seida are traveling to Japan to document the rebirth of the country. They will share what's going on through: facebook, storify, and world blog.
The people in Japan are living a disaster zone basically, atleast the ones on the coast are. There is also the concern of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and radiation. Right now I'm very glad I don't live near any fault lines or the ocean. I couldn't imagine losing everything and having basically no where to go. Here we have tornadoes and you can lose everything, but there are people near that do have food and do have shelter to help you out. There they have nothing. It also seems like here it takes a long time to get government help in natural disasters.
http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/02/6772908-looking-for-signs-of-rebirth-on-japans-battered-coast
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