Update from Tokyo

I look each day for the blog from my friend in Tokyo. She is my daughter's primary school friend who has lived in Japan for nearly 30 years. She says today, that whatever the media say., there is no panic in Tokyo. There is food in the shops. the people have voluntarily cut down on the use of electricity so that there are fewer power cuts than predicted and the trains are running though not quite to schedule. They have become used to aftershocks and are trying to live normally in the present unpredictable situation. It seems the British are not the only ones to keep a stiff upper lip. She says reporters (presumably foreign) say "Why aren't they panicking? Why don't they evacuate?" But Tokyo is my friend's home.
The pictures and stories from the north of Japan make sad reading. My friend's colleagues have families there and have no news of them. Natural disasters cause enough trouble on this earth. Why do men fight each other?