Japan’s earthquake tweet by tweet
Host Marco Werman talks with Aya Watanabe who has been translating tweets by people affected by the earthquake in Japan. The tweets were originally collected by a Tokyo blogger who wanted to offer his readers hope. The tweets make up a sort instant social history of the crisis and ordinary people's responses to it.
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