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2011.03.11 earthquake urayasu chiba Japan 東北地方太平洋沖地震. 2011.03.13 Shin-Urayasu Japan Earthquake Aftermath. Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring. [日本の方へ:読者が日本語版を翻訳してくださいました。 ご参照してください。] I run a small software business in central Japan. Over the years, I’ve worked both in the local Japanese government (as a translator) and in Japanese industry (as a systems engineer), and have some minor knowledge of how things are done here.

English-language reporting on the matter has been so bad that my mother is worried for my safety, so in the interests of clearing the air I thought I would write up a bit of what I know. A Quick Primer On Japanese Geography Japan is an archipelago made up of many islands, of which there are four main ones: Honshu, Shikoku, Hokkaido, and Kyushu. . … to an extent, anyway. The public perception of Japan, at home and abroad, is disproportionately influenced by Tokyo’s outsized contribution to Japanese political, economic, and social life. Miyagi is the prefecture hardest hit by the tsunami, and Japanese TV is reporting that they expect fatalities in the prefecture to exceed 10,000. Japanese Disaster Preparedness. U.S. Geological Survey: Social Media at the USGS.