Hello, First of all, I thank those who sent me a message. Though many events are canceled, Tokyo is just the usual today.
I guess some of you have been to Sendai which is a central town of North-east of Japan. The situation of Sendai is really really bad. I'm concerning whether or not people of Tohoku University are safe. Thanks to twitter, Eijiro Sumii, who is the chair of ICPF 2011 programming contest is safe.
I should correct this information. The central city of Sendai was not attacked by Tsunami. But the airport was destroyed since it is much closer to the coast. As you may know, the nuclear energy plants in Fukushima are in severe situation. I hope they will stop safely. We Japanese feel that people living all over the world are with us. Thank you. --Kazu