The nuclear emergency following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan has led to 25 embassies temporarily shut their doors in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, said Wednesday.
Matsumoto provided the figure of an appearance before the Lower House Foreign Affairs Committee. Germany, Switzerland and Finland top the list.
As of Tuesday, "eight of them had been transferred from their functions outside of Tokyo and Japan," a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
"The others have had their staff to stay home. They changed the day per day working arrangement," he said.
"In any case, the Foreign Ministry remains in contact with embassies temporarily transferred or embassy personnel to stay home, providing accurate information to the entire diplomatic corps."
Nearly two weeks after the double catastrophe has devastated the country's Pacific coast on March 11, workers were fighting to avoid a catastrophe at a nuclear plant paralyzed, located 250 kilometers north of Tokyo.
he Division of the Press Department of Foreign Affairs said that the country had closed their doors following: Angola, Bahrain, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Kenya, Kosovo, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Panama and Switzerland.
Switzerland has temporarily moved its embassy in Osaka, citing "very uncertain" situation at the Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) nuclear power plants.
The U.S. State Department last week authorized the "voluntary departure" of family members embassy in Tokyo, including resettlement in other parts of Japan.
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