A week into Japan?s crisis, when many of my spooked friends had already decamped west, south or abroad, I urged my pregnant partner Nanako to leave Tokyo for the apparent safety of Kansai. She wasn?t happy and for good reason: I was staying behind, her parents were in Tokyo and she knew nobody in Osaka.
Two days before, my sister and boyfriend had cut short a holiday in Japan and decamped to Hong Kong after a painful haranguing from my mother in Ireland.
Before Nanako and I left for Shinagawa Station there was another strong earthquake, a report on the radio about potentially catastrophic radiation from the Fukushima plant and a warning by the Irish Embassy in Tokyo that pregnant women should avoid the capital.
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