Life in Tokyo: From surviving, to thriving

Wed, 03/07/2012 - 12:16 — Anonymous by Matt AltLive on CNN on March 11,
2011. The quake was later upgraded to a 9.0 magnitude.You may not remember
me, but I was in your home last March. Or your office, or bar, or wherever it
was you were tuned into the TV on that fateful day. By pure happenstance I
ended up being one of the first local faces on international television
following the 3/11 earthquake. Believe me, nobody was as surprised by all of
this as I was. My on-air descriptions of Tokyo's experiences coincided with
the first images of the tsunami waves hitting the mainland. Watching it all
happen from the midst of the media maelstrom was at turns surreal and
terrifying. That Friday, we'd shaken for two minutes straight. There were
scattered fatalities in the capital. Buildings were damaged. An apocalyptic
fireball erupted over a Chiba oil refinery.read more