Thank You guys for voicing your concerns…

Thank You guys for voicing your concerns and prayers for the Japanese people. I know that it goes very deep for you as you have friends and acquaintances there. Stay strong and continue to love and care.
Momma Cha

Message From HoMin/TVXQ To Japan
Posted on March 14, 2011
[Trans] 110314 Message From Tohoshinki To Japan

We have received a statement from Tohoshinki:

When we heard the news about the earthquake and tsunami that just occurred, we were shocked.
And we are worried about whether all our fans and our acquaintances in Japan are safe.
We are truly praying for the safety of everyone from the bottom of our hearts.
As the damage was great, even more than we can imagine, we know it is painful.
But we are praying that everyone can become one and overcome this together.

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Update: Crescent City, California was hi…

Update: Crescent City, California was hit hard by the tsunami yesterday. The six foot waves rushed in at speeds equivalent to an aircrafts speed and devastated the harbor. This was not the only area hit but it serves as a representative sample of the enormity of this earthquake/tsunami’s influence. Numerous photographs are available on www.twitter.com. Every region has neighbors, and what happens in one area of the world truly impacts other areas. Momma Cha

Explosion at Japan Nuke Plant, Disaster …

Explosion at Japan Nuke Plant, Disaster Toll Rises

  Saturday, March 12, 2011.

AP – A car leans against a wire from an electric pole in Miyako, northeastern Japan, Saturday, March 12, 2011,

By ERIC TALMADGE and YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press Eric Talmadge And Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press – 1 hr 19 mins ago

IWAKI, Japan – An explosion at a nuclear power station Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor amid fears that it was close to a disastrous meltdown after being hit by a powerful earthquake and tsunami.

Friday’s double disaster, which pulverized Japan’s northeastern coast, has left 574 people dead by official count, although local media reports said at least 1,300 people may have been killed.

Tokyo Power Electric Co., the utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, said four workers had suffered fractures and bruises and were being treated at a hospital. A nuclear expert said a meltdown may not pose widespread danger.

Footage on Japanese TV showed that the walls of the reactor’s building had crumbled, leaving only a skeletal metal frame standing. Puffs of smoke were spewing out of the plant in Fukushima, 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Iwaki.

“We are now trying to analyze what is behind the explosion,” said government spokesman Yukio Edano, stressing that people should quickly evacuate a six-mile (10-kilometer) radius. “We ask everyone to take action to secure safety.”
The trouble began at the plant’s Unit 1 after the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and the tsunami it spawned knocked out power there.

According to official figures, 586 people are missing and 1,105 injured. In addition, police said between 200 and 300 bodies were found along the coast in Sendai, the biggest city in the area near the quake’s epicenter.

The true scale of the destruction was still not known more than 24 hours after the quake since washed-out roads and shut airports have hindered access to the area. An untold number of bodies were believed to be buried in the rubble and debris.

In another disturbing development that could substantially raise the death toll, Kyodo news agency said rail operators lost contact with four trains running on coastal lines on Friday and still had not found them by Saturday afternoon.

East Japan Railway Co. said it did not know how many people were aboard the trains.

Adding to worries was the fate of nuclear power plants. Japan has declared states of emergency for five nuclear reactors at two power plants after the units lost cooling ability.

AP Photo/The Yomiuri Shimbum, Kenji Shimizu
The most troubled one, Fukushima Dai-ichi, is facing meltdown, officials have said.

A “meltdown” is not a technical term. Rather, it is an informal way of referring to a very serious collapse of a power plant’s systems and its ability to manage temperatures. It is not immediately clear if a meltdown would cause serious radiation risk, and if it did how far the risk would extend.

Yaroslov Shtrombakh, a Russian nuclear expert, said a Chernobyl-style meltdown was unlikely.

“It’s not a fast reaction like at Chernobyl,” he said. “I think that everything will be contained within the grounds, and there will be no big catastrophe.”

In 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded and caught fire, sending a cloud of radiation over much of Europe.

Pressure has been building up in Fukushima reactor — it’s now twice the normal level — and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told reporters Saturday that the plant was venting “radioactive vapors.” Officials said they were measuring radiation levels in the area. Wind in the region is weak and headed northeast, out to sea, according to the Meteorological Agency.

The reactor in trouble has already leaked some radiation: Operators have detected eight times the normal radiation levels outside the facility and 1,000 times normal inside Unit 1’s control room.

Ryohei Shiomi, a nuclear official, said that each hour the plant was releasing the amount of radiation a person normal absorbs in a year.

He has said that even if there were a meltdown, it wouldn’t affect people outside a six-mile (10-kilometer) radius — an assertion that might need revising if the situation deteriorates. Most of the 51,000 residents living within the danger area had been evacuated, he said.

Meanwhile, the first wave of military rescuers began arriving by boats and helicopters.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan said 50,000 troops would join rescue and recovery efforts following the quake that unleashed one of the greatest disasters Japan has witnessed — a 23-foot (7-meter) tsunami that washed far inland over fields, smashing towns, airports and highways in its way.

“Most of houses along the coastline were washed away, and fire broke out there,” said Kan after inspecting the quake area in a helicopter. “I realized the extremely serious damage the tsunami caused.”

More than 215,000 people were living in 1,350 temporary shelters in five prefectures, or states, the national police agency said. Since the quake, more than 1 million households have not had water, mostly concentrated in northeast.

The transport ministry said all highways from Tokyo leading to quake-hit areas were closed, except for emergency vehicles. Mobile communications were spotty and calls to the devastated areas were going unanswered .

Local TV stations broadcast footage of people lining up for water and food such as rice balls. In Fukushima, city officials were handing out bottled drinks, snacks and blankets. But there were large areas that were surrounded by water and were unreachable.

One hospital in Miyagi prefecture was seen surrounded by water. The staff had painted an SOS on its rooftop and were waving white flags.

Kan said a total of 190 military aircraft and 25 ships have been sent to the area, which continued to be jolted by tremors, even 24 hours later.

More than 125 aftershocks have occurred, many of them above magnitude 6.0, which alone would be considered strong.

Technologically advanced Japan is well prepared for quakes and its buildings can withstand strong jolts, even a temblor like Friday’s, which was the strongest the country has experienced since official records started in the late 1800s. What was beyond human control was the killer tsunami that followed.

It swept inland about six miles (10 kilometers) in some areas, swallowing boats, homes, cars, trees and everything else.

“The tsunami was unbelievably fast,” said Koichi Takairin, a 34-year-old truck driver who was inside his sturdy four-ton rig when the wave hit the port town of Sendai.

“Smaller cars were being swept around me,” he said. All I could do was sit in my truck.”

His rig ruined, he joined the steady flow of survivors who walked along the road away from the sea and back into the city on Saturday. Smoke from at least one large fire could be seen in the distance.

Smashed cars and small airplanes were jumbled up against buildings near the local airport, several miles (kilometers) from the shore. Felled trees and wooden debris lay everywhere as rescue workers coasted on boats through murky waters around flooded structures, nosing their way through a sea of debris.

Basic commodities were at a premium. Hundreds lined up outside of supermarkets, and gas stations were swamped with cars. The situation was similar in scores of other towns and cities along the 1,300-mile-long (2,100-kilometer-long) eastern coastline hit by the tsunami.

In Sendai, as in many areas of the northeast, cell phone service was down, making it difficult for people to communicate with loved ones.

President Barack Obama pledged U.S. assistance following what he called a potentially “catastrophic” disaster. He said one U.S. aircraft carrier was already in Japan and a second was on its way. A U.S. ship was also heading to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed, he said.

Japan’s worst previous quake was a magnitude 8.3 temblor in Kanto that killed 143,000 people in 1923, according to the USGS. A magnitude 7.2 quake in Kobe killed 6,400 people in 1995.

Japan lies on the “Ring of Fire” — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones stretching around the Pacific where about 90 percent of the world’s quakes occur, including the one that triggered the Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami that killed an estimated 230,000 people in 12 countries. A magnitude-8.8 quake that shook central Chile in February 2010 also generated a tsunami and killed 524 people.

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Credits: Kageyama reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writers Malcolm J. Foster, Mari Yamaguchi, Tomoko A. Hosaka and Shino Yuasa in Tokyo and Jay Alabaster in Sendai also contributed

Source: yahoo.com

1103012 Junsu at Incheon Arport Junsu ha…

1103012 Junsu at Incheon Arport

Junsu has safely arrived in Korea via the Incheon Airport. He looks very tired and dazed and in need of rest. He has been through a enormously stressful experience. Please pray for his recovery.
As more and more reports roll in there are many stories on www.twitter.com concerning lost ones who have not been heard from in Japan. They are asking us to pray. I believe that is possible and we are willing. Momma Cha.

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Editors Note: The continuing disaster in…

Editors Note: The continuing disaster in Japan is truly alarming. There has not been an earthquake of this magnitude since the early twentith century. 8.9 on the Richter scale. Thousands unnaccounted for and it is believed over a thousand dead. Nuclear plants are compromised, and while we have been right to be concerned about Junsu and his safe return to Korea, we also have to be concerned about those left behind. Many of the friends, acquaintances, and business associates of Jaejoong, Yoochun, Junsu, Changmin, and Yunho live and may have been affected by the disaster in Japan. We also must be aware of other people who may be in hurting circumstances. If we pray for one we must pray for all. Please take the time to bow your head and send up a prayer for these people and their nation and for all of the people in other locales such as America’s Hawaii and the West Coast.
California, Oregon, and Washington State were evacuated as much as possible and damage was done to parts of Oregon and California. There is not as much damage done comparatively, nevertheless, these areas need help also as your concept of disaster is relative to your own circumstances. In other words, people are dealing with losses on their own personal level. Loss is loss. As the world is no longer unconnected, let us all think of ways and actions that may help to alleviate the actual and potential harm of this earthquake and subsequent Tsunami.

Momma Cha


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Hundreds killed in tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake
AP – Buildings burn in Yamada town, Iwate prefecture (state) after Japan’s biggest recorded earthquake hit … By MALCOLM FOSTER, Associated Press Malcolm Foster, Associated Press – 22 mins ago
TOKYO – A ferocious tsunami unleashed by Japan’s biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it carried away ships, cars and homes, and triggered widespread fires that burned out of control.

Hours later, the waves washed ashore on Hawaii and the U.S. West coast, where evacuations were ordered from California to Washington but little damage was reported. The entire Pacific had been put on alert — including coastal areas of South America, Canada and Alaska — but waves were not as bad as expected.

In northeastern Japan, the area around a nuclear power plant was evacuated after the reactor’s cooling system failed and pressure began building inside.

Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai, the city in Miyagi prefecture, or state, closest to the epicenter. But authorities said they weren’t able to reach the area because of damage to the roads.

A police official, who declined to be named because of department policy, said it may be a while before rescuers could reach the area to get more precise body count. So far, they have confirmed 178 were killed, with 584 missing. Police also said 947 people were injured.

The magnitude-8.9 offshore quake triggered a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and was followed for hours by more than 50 aftershocks, many of them more than magnitude 6.0. In the early hours of Saturday, a magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck the central, mountainous part of the country — far from the original quake’s epicenter. It was not immediately clear if this latest quake was related to the others.

Friday’s massive quake shook dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coast, including Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter. A large section of Kesennuma, a town of 70,000 people in Miyagi, burned furiously into the night with no apparent hope of being extinguished, public broadcaster NHK said.

Koto Fujikawa, 28, was riding a monorail when the quake hit and had to pick her way along narrow, elevated tracks to the nearest station.

“I thought I was going to die,” Fujikawa, who works for a marketing company, said. “It felt like the whole structure was collapsing.”

Scientists said the quake ranked as the fifth-largest earthquake in the world since 1900 and was nearly 8,000 times stronger than one that devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.

“The energy radiated by this quake is nearly equal to one month’s worth of energy consumption” in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Scientist Brian Atwater told The Associated Press.

President Barack Obama pledged U.S. assistance following what he called a potentially “catastrophic” disaster. He said one U.S. aircraft carrier is already in Japan, and a second is on its way. A U.S. ship was also heading to the Marianas Islands to assist as needed, he added.

An American man working at one of the nuclear plants near the coast when the quake hit said the whole building shook and debris fell from the ceiling. Danny Eudy, 52, a technician employed by Pasedena, Texas-based Atlantic Plant Maintenance, and his colleagues escaped the building just as the tsunami hit, his wife told The Associated Press.

“He walked through so much glass that his feet were cut. It slowed him down,” said Pineville, Louisiana, resident Janie Eudy, who spoke to her husband by phone after the quake.

The group watched homes and vehicles be carried away in the wave and found their hotel mostly swept away when they finally reached it.

The government later ordered about 3,000 residents near that plant — in the city of Onahama — to move back at least two miles (three kilometers) from the plant. The reactor was not leaking radiation but its core remained hot even after a shutdown. The plant is 170 miles (270 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.

Japan’s nuclear safety agency said pressure inside the reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant has risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal, and slightly radioactive vapor may be released to reduce the pressure.

The Defense Ministry said it had sent dozens of troops trained to deal with chemical disasters to the plant in case of a radiation leak.

Trouble was reported at two other nuclear plants, but there was no radiation leak at either of them.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan planned to hold an emergency Cabinet meeting early Saturday morning and them take a helicopter to the quake-hit area and the troubled nuclear power plants.

Japan’s coast guard said it was searching for 80 dock workers on a ship that was swept away from a shipyard in Miyagi.

Even for a country used to earthquakes, this one was of horrific proportions because of the tsunami that crashed ashore, swallowing everything in its path as it surged several miles (kilometers) inland before retreating. The apocalyptic images on Japanese TV of powerful, debris-filled waves, uncontrolled fires and a ship caught in a massive whirlpool resembled scenes from a Hollywood disaster movie.

Large fishing boats and other vessels rode high waves ashore, slamming against overpasses or scraping under them and snapping power lines along the way. Upturned and partially submerged cars bobbed in the water. Ships anchored in ports crashed against each other.

At least two trains were swept off their tracks along the coast, but no one was hurt, though five passengers from one train scrambled to the roof of a nearby house.

The tsunami roared over embankments, washing anything in its path inland before reversing directions and carrying the cars, homes and other debris out to sea. Flames shot from some of the homes, probably because of burst gas pipes.

Waves of muddy waters flowed over farmland near Sendai, carrying buildings, some of them ablaze. Drivers attempted to flee. Sendai airport was inundated with thick, muddy debris that included cars, trucks, buses and even light planes.

Highways to the worst-hit coastal areas buckled. Telephone lines snapped. Train service in northeastern Japan and in Tokyo, which normally serve 10 million people a day, were suspended, leaving untold numbers stranded in stations or roaming the streets. Tokyo’s Narita airport was closed indefinitely.

In one town alone on the northeastern coast, Minami-soma, some 1,800 houses were destroyed or badly ravaged, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said.

As night fell and temperatures hovered just above freezing, tens of thousands of people remained stranded in Tokyo, where the rail network was still down. The streets were jammed with cars, buses and trucks trying to get out of the city.

The city set up 33 shelters in city hall, on university campuses and in government offices, but many planned to spend the night at 24-hour cafes, hotels and offices.

Japanese automakers Toyota, Nissan and Honda halted production at some assembly plants in areas hit by the quake. One worker was killed and more than 30 injured after being crushed by a collapsing wall at a Honda Motor Co. research facility in northeastern Tochigi prefecture, the company said.

Jesse Johnson, a native of the U.S. state of Nevada who lives in Chiba, north of Tokyo, was eating at a sushi restaurant with his wife when the quake hit.

“At first it didn’t feel unusual, but then it went on and on. So I got myself and my wife under the table,” he told The Associated Press. “I’ve lived in Japan for 10 years, and I’ve never felt anything like this before. The aftershocks keep coming. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t know whether it’s me shaking or an earthquake.”

NHK said more than 4 million buildings were without power in Tokyo and its suburbs.

A large fire erupted at the Cosmo oil refinery in the city of Ichihara and burned out of control with 100-foot (30-meter) flames whipping into the sky.

“Our initial assessment indicates that there has already been enormous damage,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said. “We will make maximum relief effort based on that assessment.”

He said the Defense Ministry was sending troops to the hardest-hit region. A utility aircraft and several helicopters were on the way.

Also in Miyagi prefecture, a fire broke out in a turbine building of a nuclear power plant, but it was later extinguished, said Tohoku Electric Power Co.

A reactor area of a nearby plant was leaking water, the company said. But it was unclear if the leak was caused by the tsunami or something else. There were no reports of radioactive leaks at any of Japan’s nuclear plants.

Jefferies International Ltd., a global investment banking group, estimated overall losses of about $10 billion.

Hiroshi Sato, a disaster management official in northern Iwate prefecture, said officials were having trouble getting an overall picture of the destruction.

“We don’t even know the extent of damage. Roads were badly damaged and cut off as tsunami washed away debris, cars and many other things,” he said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the 2:46 p.m. quake was magnitude 8.9, the biggest to hit Japan since record-keeping began in the late 1800s and one of the biggest ever recorded in the world.

The quake struck at a depth of six miles (10 kilometers), about 80 miles (125 kilometers) off the eastern coast, the agency said. The area is 240 miles (380 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo. Several quakes hit the same region in recent days, including one measured at magnitude 7.3 on Wednesday that caused no damage.

A tsunami warning was extended to a number of areas in the Pacific, Southeast Asia and Latin America, including Japan, Russia, Indonesia, New Zealand and Chile. In the Philippines, authorities ordered an evacuation of coastal communities, but no unusual waves were reported.

Thousands fled homes in Indonesia after officials warned of a tsunami up to 6 feet (2 meters) high, but waves of only 4 inches (10 centimeters) were measured. No big waves came to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory, either.

The first waves hit Hawaii about 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT). A tsunami about 7 feet (2.1 meters) high was recorded on Maui and a wave at least 3 feet (a meter) high was recorded on Oahu and Kauai. Officials warned that the waves would continue and could get larger.

Japan’s worst previous quake was a magnitude 8.3 temblor in 1923 in Kanto that killed 143,000 people, according to USGS. A 7.2-magnitude quake in Kobe in 1995 killed 6,400 people.

Japan lies on the “Ring of Fire” — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones stretching around the Pacific where about 90 percent of the world’s quakes occur, including the one that triggered the Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami that killed an estimated 230,000 people in 12 nations. A magnitude-8.8 temblor that shook central Chile in February 2010 also generated a tsunami and killed 524 people.

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Associated Press writers Jay Alabaster, Mari Yamaguchi, Tomoko A. Hosaka and Yuri Kageyama in Tokyo; Jaymes Song in Honolulu and Mark Niesse in Ewa Beach, Hawaii; Seth Borenstein and Julie Pace in Washington, and Michael Kunzelman in New Orleans contributed to this report.

Source: Associated Press/Yahoo News

JYJ’s Junsu will return to Korea for Fan…

JYJ’s Junsu will return to Korea for Fanmeeting

Well, Folks

I guess we can all breathe a little easier now. Lot’s of rest, Junsu. You’ve been through an ordeal. Rest for your family, also. It’s good that the fanmeet has an excellent chance of happening.
Love You. Momma Cha

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AllKPop.com reports:

It was recently reported that a 8.9 magnitude earthquake shook Japan, causing a lot of destruction throughout the country which shut down almost all of the communication systems.

JYJ’s Junsu was one of the idols still residing in Japan, and a few hours ago he was able to tweet, “I have never ever felt this…today I felt major tremors” and “More than anything, I have to go tomorrow…Well, I’m not sure if I can get on a plane.”

However, C-JES Entertainment assured fans of the idol’s healthy condition and news about JYJ’s upcoming fan meeting by stating,

“We’re receiving a great amount of concern regarding JYJ member Junsu’s Japan schedule. Kim Junsu is currently safely waiting for the airport to open and is trying his best to attend the fan meeting. We are trying our best to let the staff in Japan allow for Junsu to enter Korea safe and sound.

We plan to cancel the fan meeting if Junsu cannot return to Korea. With regards to a cancellation, we will reveal it tomorrow based on the situation around 12PM noon. The staff has already completed the rehearsal and all preparations for the performance, so we will be following the situation closely.

If the plane has departed by 12PM noon tomorrow, we will continue by delaying the performance portion by 1 hour, and will proceed as previously planned. If that is not possible, we will give a refund and will have to reassess on what to do regarding the performance.

We’re so sorry for the sudden cause of worry to fans due to the occurrence of this terrible natural disaster.”

The company then released a second statement which reads,

“To all the fans whom are participating in the fan meeting: the JYJ fan meeting will proceed to take place on March 12th at 3pm without any disruptions.

When Kim Junsu boards the plane tonight, he will return to Korea and will immediately rest, in order to actively participate in the fan meeting tomorrow. We discussed this with Junsu, and have decided that the fan meeting will take place as planned.

Regarding the onsite ticket sales that we announced at around 6 initially, due to the fact that the cancellation of tickets did not take place today, we have decided that we will not sell JYJ fan meeting tickets onsite tomorrow.

Thank you.”

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Since I know that we are all concerned a…

Since I know that we are all concerned about our guys right now due to the natural disaster in Japan, this is a post confirming that Junsu is in Japan, but Jaejoong and Yoochun should be in Korea. I will check on Changmin and Yunho’s whereabouts. Momma Cha

[TRANS] Junsu’s Situation & JYJ Fan Meeting Announcement from C-Jes 110311

This is C-Jes Entertainment.

We are receiving many enquiries from fans regarding JYJ member Junsu’s Japan Schedule now. Kim Junsu is currently safely waiting at the airport for it to be opened. And he is trying his best to attend the fan meeting.
We are trying our very best to let the onsite staff in Japan and Junsu be able to enter Korea safely.

We plan to cancel the fan meeting if Junsu is unable to enter Korea.
With regards to whether it will be canceled, we will reveal it tomorrow based on the situation at 12 noon. The Fan Meeting Staff have completed the rehearsal and all the preparations for the performance, and will be following the situation closely.

If the plane has departed by 12 noon tomorrow, we will delay the performance by 1 hour and the fan meeting will proceed as previously planned.
If that is not possible, we will give a refund and reconsider the performance.

We are sorry to suddenly cause the fans to worry due to the occurence of a natural disaster.

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