Ask the French where to go - or rather where they went. The French Embassy was the first embassy to urge their nationals to evacuate. And so many French and French-speaking people have. I am told that the Shangri-la Hotel is virtually closed because the top management from France and Europe have left the country; the ANA Inter-Continental appears to have the same problem with its European managers just quitting their jobs and leaving. The chefs at a number of Michelin-starred French restaurants (which will go unnamed) have already left Tokyo, with some refusing to ever return. Even French cooks in smaller places we know of in Tokyo we hear have quit and left Tokyo or the country. A friend says the French president of her French-owned subsidiary in Tokyo simply left his office after the quake and later emailed the staff he was leaving and then recommended the staff evacuate.

A Japanese friend in the hospitality industyy in Japan quipped that with such stalwart profesional devotion as that, he hopes they will not come back.