TIL that Japan incorporates more disaster planning into its buildings and public spaces than any other nation
3d 18h ago by feddit.uk/u/NomNom in til from news.mit.edu
Nowhere else has the triple threat of earthquakes, volcanoes and massive kaiju.
Edit: also typhoons and tsunami too
They got nuked too
Gah I was gonna say that.
But aren't Kaiju just allegories for western destruction a la Fat Boy and Little Man?
Definitely
And firebombs burned down a large swath of populated areas prior to that.
And tsumanis!
and massive kaiju
Yeah, sometimes they are bad, but sometimes they are protector, or kind of in the middle, a metaphor for the forces of nature bigger than life whatever. So it balances out.
*and being that rich.
Sounds liked they learned from their history
Days without quakes are rare in Japan: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/
E: https://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/recent
And stronger quakes happen yearly.
Tbf they also disaster a lot
Something keeps reminding them to stay on top of the problem.
I understand what they’re getting at but I always find the phrase “more than any other” to be funny as something will always be the most (even if it’s a tie).
There have been enough horrible earthquakes and heinous loss of life that they take the lesson to heart.
Makes perfect sense.
But can they disasterproof their collapsing population?