Japan government officials announced that efforts will be made to get stranded patients out of hospitals in the evacuation zone, as well as other people who did not have a way to self evacuate (remember Hurricane Katrina?).

Local city governments are now joining together to help each other,  now that it has become clear the national government is not prepared to help them.

Just like people in the United States are justified in questioning their government’s ability to help after a natural disaster (Hurricane Katrina), the Japanese have every justification to lose faith in their government.

I’ve said this before, it is clear that the most prepared nation in the world was NOT prepared.