Earthquake refugees take shelter at the Dan evacuation center in Kesennuma, in the Miyagi Prefecture in north-eastern Japan. Photo by EPA/BGNES
The Bulgarian Consul in Tokyo, Chavdar Gradinarski, has left Japan after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake last week, leaving his compatriots in the country to cope with the situation by themselves.
This statement was made Friday in an interview for the Bulgarian private TV channel bTV by Svetoslav Georgiev, a Bulgarian man living, studying and working in the Sendei prefecture.
On Sunday, less than 48 hours after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, Gradinarski personally promised Georgiev to keep him updated with the constantly changing situation in the country.
However, on Wednesday, upon arriving to the Bulgarian Embassy in Tokyo, Georgiev found out that the Bulgarian Consul had left with his family to the homeland.
In the interview, the Bulgarian student also said that people at the moment are leaving not only Tokyo, but Japan in general.