On Tuesday, his key Japanese media outlet, while reporting on the “situation being in hand” was quickly evacuating its staff to either Hong Kong, or Sydney, Australia. He was given a timeframe in which to gather critical data for the media’s product and was to be helicoptered to an island in southern Japan where a corporate plane would move him – and other members of this key media outlet – to foreign shores.


All the while his publication was reporting “normal” conditions for the populace.