World Atlas including Geography Facts, Maps, Flags - worldatlas.com. Built.pdf (application/pdf Object) Japan's Earthquake and the Hazards of an Aging Population - Alexandra Harney - International. Devastation in the Japanese countryside exposes a looming demographic crisis Much as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina highlighted ugly realities in American society, the recent earthquake has uncovered a troubling side of Japan's national life: the vulnerability of its poor, neglected, and increasingly elderly rural countryside. You see this in the faces of tsunami and earthquake survivors on television.
About one-in-three residents in the areas of Japan worst hit by the disaster are more than 65 years old, a significantly higher ratio than the national average of 22.7 percent. Some 22 percent of Japan's elderly are poor, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Tohoku, the six-prefecture region hardest hit by the tidal wave, epitomizes the growing gap between rural and urban in Japan. Like much of rural Japan, the economies in the most devastated parts of Tohoku had been floundering for decades before they were swamped by the tsunami.
Worldnews: search results. Japan Earthquake: Two Weeks Later - Alan Taylor - In Focus. Two weeks after northeastern Japan was struck by a massive earthquake and tsunami, the cost of the disaster is becoming clearer. The Japanese government has estimated the direct damage at as much as $310 billion, making it the world's costliest-ever natural disaster. As of today, more than 10,000 deaths have been confirmed and another 17,000 people remain missing.
At Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, it raised suspicions of a possible breach when two workers waded into water 10,000 times more radioactive than normal and suffered skin burns. Earthquake survivors return to their homes to collect what they can find, to mourn their losses, and try to find a sense of normalcy in lives that have been ripped apart. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A bereaved family member of a victim of the earthquake and tsunami prays in front of a coffin at a temporary mass grave site in Higashi-Matsushima, in Miyagi prefecture, northern Japan March 24, 2011. Geography & Urban Development reddits. I'm trying to understand the geography of the tsunami. Did the Boso Peninsula(Chiba) shield Tokyo? : japan. Reddit. Openprinter_announce: search results.