Pour appuyer les dires de liquid et autres témoignages sur place, voici un mail général reçu ce matin (~5h30 FR, soit ~13h30 JP) de la part d’un des 2 employés de notre bureau à Tôkyô (l’autre a préféré passer quelques temps à notre bureau de Hong Kong).
Comme d’hab’, rien à voir avec le catastrophisme nucléaire affiché hors du Japon.
Ah, et afin de ne pas mettre cette « tranquillité d’esprit » sur « l’esprit japonais », quel qu’il puisse être, notez que le rédacteur de ce mail n’est pas Japonais mais Britannique (certes marié à une Japonaise).

All,

The Tokyo office will be returning to some sort of normality today. The city is pretty much back to normal, and the trains were packed this morning. Milk and rice are still thin on the ground, but there is no shortage of food. There has also been a huge city-wide effort to reduce electricity consumption, leaving many stations and shops darker than usual, as well as power-cuts in some areas.

The Fukushima incident seems to be under control, and at last progress is being made. It seems that a lot of the foreign media particularly played up the seriousness of the situation, with reports of another Chernobyl likely, despite the two situations being barely comparable. It was serious, and we were all concerned (scared, even), but for once the government was open, communicative and clear. We were told when things went right, when they went wrong, and what they were doing about that. It’s also interesting that it is apparently all but forgotten in many newspapers in the wake of the attack on Libya, despite there still being a considerable amount of work to be carried out.

One thing that I think many people in Japan will have gained from this is the ability to describe in detail the construction and workings of a BWR type nuclear reactor. I know I certainly have.

It will be years before Japan recovers from the tsunami, but the country is doing its best to return to life as usual. And so shall <nom de ma boîte> Tokyo.
Best regards,