By Jennifer Galle, Metro World News in France

Ryoji Kurihara lives and work with his wife around Sendai. Metro asked him about the situation in North Japan.

(Ryoji answered by e-mail).

Q: Where were you when the earthquake happened?

A: I was in Ishinomaki, a city in Miyagi Prefecture so I could not see the tsunami. The building where I was stood up, but inside everything was broken. We could not stand up for about three minutes during the earthquake.

Q: What was your reaction?

A: I went to my car and checked the news. I saw tsunami live running over Ishinomaki. My home is in Sendai. I decided to go home by car. Normally, it would take about 1hour (it's 50km away). As I left Ishinomaki driving my car it started to snow a lot. It was incredible. It was like in a movie. I passed two rivers, the water level was so high! If I had go 30 minutes later, I would have been carried away. It took me six hours by car from Ishinomaki to my home in Sendai.

Q: Where are you now?

A: Now I am in my home in Sendai.

Q: What is the situation now?

A: We can still get electric power and water but we don't know for how long... Some grocery shops are open and people are queuing for food. There is no gas left in the gas station around though.

Q: How people are reacting?

A: We need water, food and news about our family members! We don't have much information about areas touched by tsunami... We don't know what has happened with people who were there.

Q: Are there any rescue teams?

A: 100,000 Self‐Defense Forces [Japanese military; Metro] will come, we expect also teams from USA and South Korea. But I think it's not enough because more than 10,000 people are missing or dead.

Q: What about electricity and water?

A: There will be some restriction about electricity. We will be able to use it and we will have some three hours interruptions per day.

Q: What do you expect to happen in next days?

A: Government is warning about acid/radioactive rains from tomorrow...