Typhoon Roke further ravages Japan, still reeling from tsunami
Six months after a deadly earthquake and tsunami, Japan has weathered yet another natural disaster in the form of Typhoon Roke, which pummelled the country with heavy rains and driving winds.
When the worst of it was over, the country seemed to utter a collective sigh of relief,juicy couture outlet
a curious reaction given the typhoon’s devastating toll: Evacuation advisories were sent to more than a million people on the main island of Honshu; 200,000 households were without electricity in central Japan; at least 13 people were missing or dead.
After a ruthless year that has shaken Japan to its core, its people seemed intent on counting small blessings. The only damage wrought to the battered Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant, for instance, was a broken security camera.
Still, the stoic dignity and resilience of Japanese society that has won admiration from around the world is being tested once again by the latest typhoon, the second to strike Japan in the past month.
“It’s been quite shattering for the psyche of the society. There’s a kind of impending sense of ‘What’s next?’ ” said Sheila Smith, a senior fellow for Japan studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The country has been in recovery mode since March, when a massive earthquake and tsunami left more than 20,000 people dead or missing and hundreds of thousands homeless.
It also triggered a nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant, where engineers are still working to stabilize the reactors six months after three of them melted down when the tsunami compromised the plants’ cooling systems.
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