'All I could do was hold the chair'

Chie KobayashiBBC News in Japan I've just spoken to a woman whose cake shop is located about 600m (660 yards) from the Aeon mall that partially collapsed during the earthquake. An explosion ripped through the mall about an hour after the quake. "I couldn’t tell which sound was the sound of earthquake, and which was the sound of explosion," says the woman, who was sitting in the back office of her shop when the quake struck. There were no customers in the shop at the time. "All I c