The Our Adventures in Japan (katnsatoshiinjapan.blogspot.com) blog post for March 11 reads: 'There was a large earthquake today near Miyagi prefecture. I felt it in Osaka, it was like a boat rocking and I got a little seasick. We're doing fine, though there are many areas under tsunami alert. Be safe everyone!'
Subsequent posts reveal some of the devastation that happened to the country - but Kat, living in Japan with her husband, Satoshi, gets back to life as (almost) usual. The main focus of the blog is food and Japanese culture from an outsider's point of view (Kat is from Hawaii). She writes about what she and her husband eat at home and on their travels around the country (breakfast in an inn that consisted of grilled horse mackerel, Chinese yams, shaved bonito, egg, pickled vegetables, miso soup and rice; lunch of udon with nori, mizuna, dried wheat gluten and bean-curd skins), and what she cooks, such as her version of meatloaf - it has lots of vegetables, plus shiso leaf, and she serves it with Japanese tartar sauce; and donburi (above; 'rice bowl') with pork, kimchi, burdock, carrots and zucchini.