TIL that Japan incorporates more disaster planning into its buildings and public spaces than any other nation

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Nowhere else has the triple threat of earthquakes, volcanoes and massive kaiju.

Edit: also typhoons and tsunami too

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They got nuked too

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Gah I was gonna say that.

But aren’t Kaiju just allegories for western destruction a la Fat Boy and Little Man?

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And firebombs burned down a large swath of populated areas prior to that.

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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.

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*and being that rich.

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Sounds liked they learned from their history

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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.

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Tbf they also disaster a lot

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Something keeps reminding them to stay on top of the problem.

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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).

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There have been enough horrible earthquakes and heinous loss of life that they take the lesson to heart.

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Makes perfect sense.

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