An official at the prefecture said the most urgent need was tents because the cold nights were starting in earnest.
"The victims were residents attending a mourning ceremony for a prefecture official," said a humanitarian source, who said that between 20 and 30 people had been killed in the attack near the mosque in Abadam.
THE protesters mounting an all-night vigil outside Camp Schwab, an American military base on the main island of the southern prefecture of Okinawa, are hardly wild-eyed radicals.
Now Satsumasendai in Kagoshima prefecture, on the southern tip of Kyushu, southernmost of Japan's four main islands, is likely to be the country's first city to approve the restart of a nuclear plant.
In 2012, before two reactors at Oi in Fukui prefecture were switched back on for a while, the governor there ensured that the then prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, reassured the public over the plant's safety.
Like many residents, Mr Somekawa, who is now 47, is dismayed at the news, but he says the decision is well-nigh inevitable.The final word will come from the governor of Kagoshima prefecture and from Satsumasendai's mayor.
Residents of Tottori, on the other hand, know that their prefecture benefits from their relatively stronger voice in both houses of the Diet.
Tottori's farmers have voted squarely for the main LDP man, Shigeru Ishiba, secretary-general of the party, because he, like his father, who was once governor, has done a lot for the prefecture.
