Just a quick note to friends and family to say that the wife, puppy, and I are now back in Gifu with the in-laws. With the amount of confusion and misinformation circulating through the news programs, we felt that it would be better to leave the area in the event we're told to evacuate even further from the Fukushima nuclear plant (which isn't likely to reach Kashiwa, but still). Of course the excessive earthquakes didn't help, either.