Christian network: Japan disaster victims still "isolated and uncertain"

By Hisashi Yukimoto from Ecunemical News International

MANY victims of the 11 March 2011 northeast Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant disaster are still "feeling isolated and uncertain about their future," a Japanese interdenominational relief network reports.

"The triple disasters ... claimed the lives of 20,000 people.

The number of people that continue to suffer as a result of these disasters cannot be counted.

Although one year has passed, for those affected, the painful memories of that day have not faded," said the Sendai Christian Alliance Disaster Relief Network, also called Touhoku HELP.

The report was released 29 April.

The network was founded in Japan's northeastern city of Sendai, one week after 11 March and close to the epicenter of the magnitude-nine quake that triggered a tsunami and radiation leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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By Emma Tucker

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By Tara Burton

ONE hundred and fifty Uniting Church members gathered in Mt Louisa House of Praise in Townsville for worship over the

Easter weekend.

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