Some embassies urge citizens to leave Japan

Wednesday 16th March, 07:52 AM JST

TOKYO —

Foreign embassies in Tokyo are urging their citizens staying in Japan to get out of the country after the deadly earthquake and intensifying nuclear plant crisis in Fukushima Prefecture.

The German and Swiss Embassies have begun to call on their nationals living in the quake-hit regions and the Tokyo metropolitan area to consider evacuating to other nations, their websites showed.

The French Embassy temporarily asked its citizens in the capital area to get out of the Kanto region including Tokyo for several days, while it added Tuesday there appeared to be no threat of radioactive winds in Tokyo.

The Indonesia government the same day returned home by airliners 99 Indonesian nationals staying in evacuation centers in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, or other cities.

With concerns growing over the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the Chinese Embassy issued an emergency notice that it will help its citizens return home from Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures, all of which were hit by the quake.

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