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astrangerhere · 11-23-2019, 04:30 PM

I am very interested in Japanese culture and have a reading and listening comprehension of the language, though my spoken skills are still meh. I follow the NHK and a few shimbun (newspaper) twitters to keep my skills fresh. I was following all of them the day the tsunami hit. I had the NHK live stream on in my office the whole day and many of the days that followed.

I think there is something to be said that maybe the book doesn't address the way I had hoped it would - Japan is still one of the most disaster-prepared nations in the world. This once episode of the school was a tragedy, but it was the exception to the rule in many ways. The government reaction, however, was not.

11-23-2019, 04:30 PM	#4
astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,658 Karma: 66000000 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	I am very interested in Japanese culture and have a reading and listening comprehension of the language, though my spoken skills are still meh. I follow the NHK and a few shimbun (newspaper) twitters to keep my skills fresh. I was following all of them the day the tsunami hit. I had the NHK live stream on in my office the whole day and many of the days that followed. I think there is something to be said that maybe the book doesn't address the way I had hoped it would - Japan is still one of the most disaster-prepared nations in the world. This once episode of the school was a tragedy, but it was the exception to the rule in many ways. The government reaction, however, was not.