[oh8eleven]

I wonder how the Japs will rationalize these disasters?
They will humbly accept them as their inevitable fate, honor their dead, then return to life.
Americans would demand they be 100% protected from every natural disaster known to man, while hundreds of "scientists" pretend they can meet that demand if the selfish taxpayers would just give them millions MORE in gov't grants.

[Frank_2001]

“Americans would demand they be 100% protected from every natural disaster known to man, while hundreds of “scientists” pretend they can meet that demand if the selfish taxpayers would just give them millions MORE in gov’t grants.”

After looting the rubble of anything that hasn’t been destroyed, that is!/s;)

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Your point would be a good one, except that Japan has spent billions of dollars developing the most advanced earthquake early warning in the world, as well as some of the strictest building codes (each of which likely saved many lives in this quake).

To suggest that the Japanese would “humbly accept” these disasters as “inevitable” and not try to protect their citizens from these disasters is simply incorrect.

[Josephat]

Boy, you got that right!