It’s already dark and cold in Tokyo and there’s a clear sense of unease. The trains are not currently running, restaurants are closed and shop shelves are empty. CNN journalist, Michael Robert Poole says airports are closed and the phone services are just starting to come back up. Caroline Hawley, world affairs correspondent with the BBC says that reports are coming in of casualties and destruction: fire at an oil rig, a missing train and a ship swept out to sea.
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