USAF is operating two Globalhawk UAVs and U-2s over Japan, esp. Tohoku region where intensive damage by March 11 earthquake and tsunami directly hit. Unofficially the casualty of this disaster is exceeding 20,000 mark, including those who still missing.
Globalhawk is especially put on special imagery information gathering mission flying high over Fukushima Diichi nuclear plant where the desperate efforts are going on to cool down those uncontrolled nuclear reactors.
Mainichi Shimbun reported that the imagery information data was shared by USAF to the Japanese government but Tokyo is reluctant to show the images of the plant to Japanese public. The reasons for its reluctance is unknown but USAF has gave the information to the Japanese government without conditions, reportedly.
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