Continuing from my previous post.
You’re probably hearing about this for the first time, but residents of the Tokyo metropolitan area also had a difficult time after the earthquake.
Although it’s nothing compared to the hardships faced by those in Tohoku.
The electric power company in charge of the Tokyo metropolitan area suddenly implemented an absurd plan known as “rolling blackouts.”
To put it bluntly, it was an intentional blackout.
The earthquake occurred on March 11th. It was a very cold season in Japan, with occasional snow.
It was so cold that you could freeze to death without heating, so I couldn’t believe they would intentionally cause a blackout.
In the area where I lived, the blackout lasted from 10 p.m. to the morning.
Have you ever experienced darkness not only in your home but also outside and in the city?
I still can’t understand why we had to go through such suffocating darkness and cold.
Without heating, we had no choice but to sleep.
Traffic lights on the roads were out, so police officers had to manually direct traffic.
There were also apparently many traffic accidents.
What’s even worse, I heard that many patients on ventilators at home died suddenly when their ventilators stopped working because there was no electricity.
It was unbelievable that this rolling blackout not only caused accidents but also deaths.
Most Japanese people are unaware of this reality.
After experiencing this rolling blackout, I became very afraid of the dark and it left me traumatized.
Japanese people are relatively unattached to history and events and tend to forget them, so I don’t think there are many people who remember this hidden incident.
I don’t think I’ll ever forget this incident.
