After Japan was hit by a deadly earthquake and tsunami last Friday, an English teacher who was reportedly missing was now located in a village near Sendai which is known to be 300km Northeast of Tokyo.
The earthquake survivor was Jason Briffa, a man from Melbourne.
According to Dennis Cusack, his employer, the 25-year-old Mr. Briffa is helping with the clean-up for the said village there.
But since telephone lines have been cut off, a problem regarding communication is at hand. But there are reports that this man is in good spirits. He wasn’t able to make a phone call from his family due to the country’s phone line problems.
It was through his boss Mr. Cusack that the good news about Mr. Briffa was able to reach his family.
Jason Briffa’s battery have been going low but he was able to get a call to his employer saying that he was at Murata high school and for the past few days, he had been helping the local residents for area clean-up.
Mary Briffa, the mother of the English teacher survivor says that he wanted him home as soon as possible.
The mother expressed the happiness she felt knowing that his son had survived from the devastating earthquake. She wanted him to hurry home for he had been in Japan for over 12-month time.
Earlier, she and her family have been in great frustration because Mr. Briffa hasn’t given them a phone call himself.
When a TV story was flashed about Mr. Briffa Sunday night, it was then that the Department of Foreign Affairs contacted their family.
According to Department of Foreign Affairs, there had been 121 out of 273 Australian survivors who are now safe together with the 2, 474 Japanese out of the 11,000 victims.
Reaching for about 10,000 death tolls, Japanese government feared regarding the earthquake’s effect.
Heading towards a 200 km North-East capital of Tokyo, the Australian team have arrived in Japan Monday said Attorney General Robert McClelland to (–foul word(s) removed–)ist in the continuing search for survivors.