Evacuees in tents not happy campers (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

Shunsuke Kita and Katsuro Oda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writers

YAMAMOTOCHO, Miyagi--Aya Nagaki has been staying in a tent with her 12-year-old son and her parents since the start of April. However, this is no family camping trip.

"I naturally wake up at 5:30 a.m. due to the sunlight and sounds coming from other tents nearby," said Nagaki, 37, a life insurance salesperson.

Nagaki is staying in one of 33 white tents neatly lined up next to a central community center in Yamamotocho. The tent is only the size of about five tatami mats, but it affords more privacy than the crowded evacuation center set up after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and more space than her car. There is room inside for a wooden table, futon, hot-water bottles and some clothes.

Most of the about 100 evacuees living in the "tent village" had been taking shelter in their cars, rather than the cramped shelters where privacy is a rare luxury. But seven weeks after the disaster, Nagaki and many others are reaching their limit.

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