Red Cross Japan

You readers may also be interested to hear the six month assessment of President Konoe of the Japanese Red Cross Society in his "Six Months on from the Great East Japan Earthquake" as he reports on the triple disasters of the earthquake, .tsunami and the meltdown and radiation released from 3 of the 6 nuclear plants at the Fukushima Daiichi facility built on the coast:

International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Youtube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ifrc#p/u/6/slhi_RSEZsw

As he says, "we are only just at the beginning of it" here in Japan. Keep the support coming please.

Your readers may also like to see some other positive and realistic reports on the need for psychosocial support for the millions of survivors of these triple disasters, many of whom may well in time, require the legal assessment, diagnosis and treatment of PTSD, depression and other mental disorders Japan's 100,000 + licensed mental health care professionals in Japan:

Mental Psychological Care Japan Tsunami Earthquakehttp://bit.ly/n2DqfN via @addthis Nick Jones' article in International Red Cross Magazine

Mending Minds by Nick Jones (in English)
http://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2011_2/24-25.html

International Red Cross magazine reports on mental health professionals counseling therapy post Japan earthquakehttp://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2011_2/24-25.html

http://tokyocounseling.com/english/media/redcross.html

http://tokyocounseling.com/english/column/psychologistjapan.html
http://tokyocounseling.com/english/media/japanpsw.html


With kindest regards from Tokyo

Andrew