Japan Disaster!!

Japan is one of the famous countries that own the best technology. If we go there, we will be awed by their achievements. However, this kind of really-good technology, not make this country perfect.

On 11 March 2011 (Friday), at 05.46 UTC, Japan got a fearsome earthquake and tsunami disaster. Many people are being confirmed killed by that disaster. Police said 200 to 300 bodies were found in the northeastern coastal city of Sendai. 88 people were confirmed killed and 349 people were missing.

The 9.0 magnitude earthquake makes the 7 meters high tsunami. This tsunami attack as far as 5 kilometers from the beach line, including Fukushima. It sweep Sendai Town, and makes it drowned in the water. In the other side, JMA said that this is the biggest earthquake ever attack Japan.

The disaster makes devastating effects. Many people were killed, buildings were destroyed, and the most pathetic is Nuclear Disaster-the disaster because of Japanese technology achievements-

On Tuesday, their Nuclear Reactor burnt. The Tsunami few days before, makes the Nuclear Reactor burnt. Prime Minister of Japan, Naoto Kan, said that the radiation became the bigger level and can be dangerous. Two reactors explode and it became more dangerous.

It can harm DNA and became cancer.

Well, they got so many disaster and dangerous event in their lives. What they do next?

We all know, how diligent Japanese people are. I believe that they will move on and built a new Japan. This is not the first time they get this kind of disaster. And I’m sure, they always move and move. =D

That’s what I like from Japanese.

BY : Regina Bella Halim

Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear leakage..... A complete package for changing your life!

Japan is not only famous of its manga, but also famous as the industrial country that makes many of the automotive and electronic products. Many smart robots are also produced in Japan. Japan is a country with not many natural resources, but have talented people in industry. No wonder, Japan becomes one of the developed countries in the world.

The success of Japan is not as easy as turning your palm. Maybe we’re awed by the success, but you know what? The Japanese work hard for it, because there’s so many unlucky factor of Japan, like lying in the earthquake belt and also volcanic chain. That makes most of the Japanese had ever run into disasters.

The last phenomenal disaster was the earthquake along with Tsunami and the nuclear leakage in March 11^th, 2011 with the power of 8.9 SR. Then just like a flash, Tsunami comes, rolling to the east coast of Honshu then continue its journey to the city of Sendai, Yamagata and Fukushima and also the capital of Japan, Tokyo. The wave stand about 7 meters height and ravage the buildings, ports, many houses and vehicles in the street. Luckily many buildings are tremor resistant, so there are some that are not vanished.

The Tsunami also destroy the nuclear power plants in Fukushima.T he nuclear leak and the dangerous radioactive affect people there. And that’s a devastating effect, because people can became poisoned by radioactive. Radioactive can make people suffered cancer and most likely they will die.

After-Tsunami and earthquake, many japanese are unemployed. But, Japanese were trying to start their bussiness again. One person that I know is a woman who opened an Onsen or hot water bath. Tsunami destroys her business place. After Tsunami, she opened the onsen but in a smaller scale. Since there was no electricity, she heated the water manually. The loyal customers came and she slowly got enough money to build a bigger onsen. Because of her effort to collect money and build her onsen, she now owns an Onsen that’s similar as the one she had before Tsunami.

From the Japanese story after Tsunami happened, we can learn to be strong in what we faced and put some effort to get what we want.

By : Christina

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