Six days since shelters opened in Tokyo for tsunami survivors from the Tohoku region, evacuees finally tasted hot meals Wednesday thanks to volunteers.
"I really appreciate a hot meal because we hadn't had it for a while," said Nanami Nitama, a 22-year-old nursery school teacher from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture.
Nitama said she took a highway bus to Tokyo with her parents Saturday, fearful of leaking radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.