Japan’s Strict Building Codes Saved Lives (Published 2011)

A bus stop was crushed by part of a wall that had fallen from a nearby building in the city of Sendai, where a tsunami roared over embankments.Credit...Kyodo News, via Associated Press Hidden inside the skeletons of high-rise towers, extra steel bracing, giant rubber pads and embedded hydraulic shock absorbers make modern Japanese buildings among the sturdiest in the world during a major earthquak

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べた褒めじゃないか

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『the best-prepared country in the world for the twin disasters of earthquake and tsunami』『tsunami education and evacuation drills were indeed effective. 』