On the 19th of March 2011, FM YY’s Lowtide programme, hosted by presenters Neil and Graeme, held a special broadcast for the victims of the great Tohoku earthquake that struck Japan on the 11th of March.
This special broadcast tackled a range of topics including the scale of the disaster and its impact on the disaster affected communities and Japan in general, the situation with the Fukushima nuclear plant, the recovery efforts by FM YY and challenges of rebuilding communities after such a large scale disaster.
Today’s special guest was Scott from Tokyo who gave his experience of the earthquake from the perspective of a foreigner living in Tokyo and the current situation in Tokyo regarding power blackouts and panic-buying.
Guests also included Masaki and Stefan from FM YY who talked about FM YY’s role in the recovery efforts and multilingual emergency broadcasting as well as explaining the current situation and what it will mean for the future of the disaster affected areas based on FM YY’s experiences of the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake 16 years before.
There was also a special thanks given to all of the support that FM YY has received from the World over.
The mp3 of this programme is now available for download at this link.
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