Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from the area devastated by the quake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident.
Japan consists of
several regions.
The quake, aftershocks and the tsunami hit East Japan which consists of Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto and Chubu regions.
Some interim figures of evacuation centers and people evacuated.
Tohoku region
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Miyagi-ken, 166229 people in 1005 evacuation centers.
Fukushima-ken, 48300 people in 432 evacuation centers.
Iwate-ken, 47006 people in 357 evacuation centers.
Yamagata-ken, 3304 people in 48 evacuation centers.
Aomori-ken, 437 people in 12 evacuation centers.
Akita-ken, 188 people in 28 evacuation centers.
Kanto region
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Ibaraki-ken, 6586 people in 170 evacuation centers.
Chiba-ken, 1189 people in 170 evacuation centers.
Tochigi-ken, 1813 people in 33 evacuation centers.
Gumma-ken, 627 people in 16 evacuation centers.
Saitama-ken, 778 people in 16 evacuation centers.
Tokyo-to, 364 people in 3 evacuation centers.
Kanagawa-ken, 33 people in 1 evacuation center.
Chubu region
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Niigata-ken, 7343 people in 38 evacuation centers.
Nagano-ken, 1600 people in 10 evacuation centers.
Many of these evacuation centers are overcrowded.
We've got short of evacuation centers.
Many people evacuated from the devastated areas in East Japan start getting out of East Japan and moving to West Japan.
I feel aftershocks several times today.
Now I have to go out to make a line at a gas station to get gas for my car.
We have to move around by car to save the people, help the people, support the people, transport what they really need to people who really need them.