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Tue 03 Mar 2011Catastrophe for Japan
CONFRONTED WITH an earthquake catastrophe on this scale Japan is showing the resilience and ability to cope that has seen it recover from previous disasters. Everyone looking at the graphic images of destruction wrought by last Friday’s tsunami realises how much they will need such a spirit, along with help to overcome it. Prime minister Naoto Kan says this is the worst disaster to have hit Japan since the second World War.
It far exceeds the impact of the Kobe earthquake in 1995 and is in fact one of the most powerful ever recorded. The growing crisis over nuclear safety brings that fully home to an anxiously watching world.
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