Japan’s Disaster

Japan is quite a famous country because some of the best business and technological achievements may be seen in Japan. Japan’s great change from land-based country to technology-based country is enviable which make Japan as one of the most important industrial country in the world. But, we tend to forget that this prosperous country has some of the worst hazards in earth to contend with.

The land of this country is largely mountainous. And it causes the Japanese have no choice but to dwell on the slopes that has large possibilities for landslides to be happened. Some part of this country is also part of planet’s volcanic chain and lie along the earthquake belt, which makes regions of this country often quakes. In the other part of the islands, typhoons often ravage the ports, towns, and villages with devastating effects. Not just typhoons, but also tidal waves, landslides, floods and fires that happens frequently.

Recently, in Japan, they had 3 disasters in a time; tsunami, earthquakes, and nuclear leakage. On March 11, Earthquakes 8,9 in Richter Scale, unleashes a huge tsunami which crashes through Japan's eastern coastline, sweeping buildings, boats, cars and people miles along. A large fire erupts at the Cosmo oil refinery in Ichihara city near Tokyo and burns out of control, with 100ft flames weaving into the sky.

A "state of emergency" is declared at one of the country's nuclear power plants after the Fukushima reactor, around 30 miles from the north east coast, suffers a cooling system failure. Around 3,000 people are evacuated from a 6.2-mile exclusion zone. And it’s too serious that some of the plants explode. But fortunately didn’t affect the reactor, so it’s still safe but they still need to observe the level of radioactivity. On Tuesday, March 15, Dangerous levels of radiation leak from the Fukushima plant after a third explosion increases.

In a televised statement after the blast, Prime Minister Kan urges those within 19 miles of the area to stay indoors. Because the effects are serious, like nausea and vomiting often begin within hours of exposure, followed by diarrhea, headaches fever and increasing the risk of a radiation-related cancer later in their life.

From what we could see in Japan’s disasters in 2011, we can conclude that not every developed country with its efficiency, can predict what will happen in the future. They had already seen some of the serious consequences that are brought along with its ambitions, success, and achievements, some of them are the depletion of ozone layer and the catastrophic disruption of the food-chain.

Tiffany