How they survive-Phoenix like qualities as a nation community, Japan once rose from the ashes of nuclear havoc in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki, earthquake in Osaka, and now this triplet of nature’s fury on Japan which saw an earthquake followed by an unprecedented tsunami and catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Fukushima nuclear reactor.
Will Japan repeat that success story?
And now we have the answer that too in affirmative.
A nation which saw hundreds of thousand people die in seconds and millions suffer for some to multiple injuries with radiation effect traversing in generations. Economy crashed, war lost. Japan rose from disasters dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American navy dropping atom bomb in august 1945. Made stories of new initiatives and saw a country, once down with the loss in WW-II, but with courage to fight back as a nation from the tragedy of the nuclear bomb-blast and crippling radiation to become world third biggest economy is evidence of sheer perseverance of the Japanese.
Japan is notoriously situated on the pacific ring of fire, a region of higher seismic and volcano activity. With this problem, Japan faces most numbers of earthquakes than any other major country on the planet, with an attitude to find a solution to the problem through technology; Japan remains religiously disciplined nation as it made its infrastructure to sustain earthquakes of high magnitudes. Japan today is leader in seismic safety technology for buildings, bridges to anything in infrastructure. This is an example of their dedication to find solution to the continuous natural threat.
Japan, alongside technology has made people aware of safety precautions with highest level of vigilance by masses in such natural disasters. Japan can be termed a nation which can calmly find solution of such natural disaster.
Even American media lauded public responsibility and discipline in everyday life, even in the days of disasters. People only took food items for one day so that food items at stores would be available for every individual, and in the meantime authorities can reinitiate supply of essential food items.
How Japan has found answer to the question posed in front of them in half-a-year ago is a matter of study.
Here is an sheer example of commitment of a Japanese, an Indian software engineer working in the capital city had ordered food item for home delivery, minutes before the massive earthquake hit Japan on March 11, and gentleman was amazed to have his food package delivered even after the Tokyo city shook with the earthquake of magnitude of 9 on Richter scale.
Roads were built within a week to connect northern region of the country, it was unpredictable to say if there were any earthquake or tsunami hit that place earlier.
People didn’t curse the fate or Mother Nature, but had demanded government to tell the truth, earlier. People believed that government knew that situation is not in control and they had concealed the fact.
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