Japan is the country of earthquakes by excelence, a long history, lots of experience and unfortunately some natural disasters have made them of reference in this field, in fact the famous word Tsunami is Japanese. Since I came here, I've learnt how to live in a society modulated to this phenomemon and where everyone seems adapted and used to live with an apparently inexistent danger but permanently present...for instance there is a popular saying that here the buildings doesn't last very long and perhaps that's why it seems that they can do whatever they want in terms of architecture. Is precisely in this point where the country has an added value with a policy of antisieismic construction implemented everywhere, so the country nowadays is or seems to be very well prepared, there is a national agency for permanent information, when you arrive there are welcome brochures with all kinds of information in the subject, there are free training courses, earthquake simulations for the population are common and when I started at work I received a survival kit in case one day something happens...for the time being we have had only small movements that to tell you the truth I've hardly noticed...hopefully will be so in the future.
This is the earthquake survival kit I got at work |
Earthquake simulation room at Yoyogi park during the Brazilian festival
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