The horror and devastation of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan continue to stun people all over the world — nowhere more so than in Japan itself, of course, where continuing anxiety is mixed with the numbness that such tragedies suffuse over the human psychology. This is an awful period for the nation, picking itself up after being partially flattened. It is a period of helpless acceptance of loss. It is a period of struggling to find reasons where there are none. It is also a time of searching for scapegoats, as the hapless officials and workers at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) battle like latter-day samurai warriors to get control of a disaster that their predecessors (and the geo-scientific advice on which they and insurers drew about the probability of these events in this region) failed hopelessly to predict.
The horror and devastation of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan continue to stun people all over the world — nowhere more so than in Japan itself, of course, where continuing anxiety is mixed with the numbness that such tragedies suffuse over the human psychology. This is an awful period for the nation, picking itself up after being partially flattened. It is a period of helpless acceptance of loss. It is a period of struggling to find reasons where there are none. It is also a time of searching for scapegoats, as the hapless officials and workers at Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) battle like latter-day samurai warriors to get control of a disaster that their predecessors (and the geo-scientific advice on which they and insurers drew about the probability of these events in this region) failed hopelessly to predict.