“ Before the contamination expands further ,
please give us your hand to help these people . ”
SOS from Mayor of Minami Soma City, next to the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan
「 This is Katsunobu Sakurai , the mayor of Minami Soma City.
The 3 . 11 earthquake and Tsunami , and a series of developing accidents
at Fukushima First Nuclear Power Plant has severely damaged our City .
I would like to thank all of those who have offered help ,
including oversea media.
However there are still substantial lack of supplies in this area ,
which is 20 - 30 Km from the plant , for the government has set the measure to stay indoors .
And with the scarce information we can gather from the government or TEPCO ,
we are left isolated .
The people of Minami - Soma City concluded and are practicing voluntary evacuation ,
and city administration is providing the support for this move .
The number of remaining citizen at the moment however is as much as 20,000 .
We take full responsibility for livelihood support for these people .
I regret to say , inspire of our effort , that we are facing the difficulty
of even distributing necessary goods .
Please support us .
The protection measure to stay indoors issued by the government restricted our logistics .
We ask for your help , volunteers , we need help to transport supplies ,
but we must depend on volunteers who could act at their own risk ,
because of the measures to remain indoors issued by the government .
Most media too , almost all , is gathering information over the phone .
It they do not step in this area and get the direct information ,
they could never get or tell what really is the situation with these people .
We would urge them to come here and witness what is developing here .
Since the measure to remain indoors has been taken ,
all the stores and super markets are shut down ,
the bank are closed , the people are literally drying up
as if they are under starvation tactics .
And petrol is not enough , it is getting harder for us to evacuate.
We would like to ask for gas and petroleum - based fuel as well .
We counted 14 days from the earthquake , basic requisite materials
are running short in the homes of remaining citizen .
But we do not have enough petrol to reach them .
We ask for volunteers who could bring in the petrol .
Local officials are now fighting the threat of radiation ,
they have been working to protect the citizen in such a strain
and exhaustion .
Some of them lost their family in the earthquake disaster ,
and some lost their houses .
They are the backbones of the lives of the citizens .
I am hoping that the volunteers could share the burdens they are handling ,
Please give your support to get over this extreme difficulty together .
Minami - Soma City is in the district that holds 1,000 years of great
Samurai tradition , namely Soma - Nomaoi - Festival .
It was totally beyond imagination , that the Tsunami reached 20 meters high .
It has washed away the whole area of 20 - by - 2. 5 Km land .
All residences in that area was totally devastated .
Yet we could hardly get our hands on searching the missing .
We have counted 253 bodies dead and 1,260 are missing ,
and now we are facing the nuclear power plant accident .
People in 10 Km reach from the nuclear plant evacuated ,
and in 20 Km reach evacuation is done ,
and here in 30 Km reach people are told to stay in the house .
Many people here are left without transportation .
They can hardly get any supplies delivered to their homes .
We regret to say this , but we have to ask volunteers to act
at their own risk .
What it means is that our outdoor activity is restricted
under the government ' s measure to stay indoors .
Please help us through .
Further more , about 50,000 people have already evacuated
from the City to all over the country .
We have very little access to these people at the moment .
We must provide support to these people as well
but for the time being we depend upon officials at local governments .
In fact , we do not have the track of how many citizens evacuated where ,
it could be more than hundred places .
Please help to encourage them and keep them informed
that we are unified , and doing all that is possible to help
our citizen and to the reconstruction of the City .
I would like to ask medias of all over the world for support ,
as well as reporting the earthquake and Tsunami disaster ,
that we are fighting against the invisible threat of radiation
and contamination .
Here is my sincere request to you , from all over the world ,
I beg you as the mayor of Minami - Soma City , to help us .
Helping each other is what makes us human being .
I would like to ask for your continuous support .
Thank you . 」
（ This was recorded on March 24 th 21 : 00 ）
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