Land of the Rising Sun!

In this very hour, sun is not rising for the Japanese but devastated by a rising sea. All your high-end technology goes to kaput against a natural disaster. Japan, the country that rises from many disasters be it natural or a man-made. The only country in the history that was pounded by atomic bombs during World War II. Japanese reply or rather revenge was a very quite one but not in the battlefield, it was praiseworthy the way Japanese technology and specially automobile industry forced once powerful American Automobile Industry out of gear. Aftermath of earthquake and tsunami, Japan now facing another danger but it is man-made, the threat raised from their nuclear power plant is somewhere a self created hidden enemy within. Technology, works as wonder only when it works and if it failed leave you no place to hide. I am not against the high tech but then why a country like Japan failed to read the real threat.

Intelligent, soft and shrewd that is my perception about the peoples of Japan. Going back to the World War II and there you will find another side of Japanese mainly based on the treatment they meted to the prisoners of the war. My friend’s mother from Singapore once narrated how during the Japanese invasion peoples were tortured but the Indians were left alone most probably in behest of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

Japan (in Japanese Nippon)

Japan’s geographical formation based on a group of 6,852 islands.  The four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, together occupying ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan has the world's tenth-largest population. Japan is a constitutional monarchy where the power of the Emperor is very limited. Power is held chiefly by the Prime Minister of Japan and other elected members of the Diet. Akihito is the current Emperor of Japan; Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan, stands as next in line to the throne. The Japanese Constitution does not allow the members of the Imperial Family to engage in political activities.

Japan has 108 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunamis, occur several times each century. The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 140,000 people. The most recent major quakes are the 2004 Chūetsu earthquake and the 2011 Sendai earthquake, a 9.0 magnitude quake which hit Japan on March 11, 2011, and triggered a tsunami.

Although Japan is one of the most developed country and a member of G8 yet having a very conservative society. Imperial Succession Law was male-preference, but recently there was a recommendation for the Imperial Succession Law that to be amended to permit equal primogeniture as the current crown prince Naruhito having only a girl child with princess Masako.

Coming out of such disaster is not an easy task, not even for a country like Japan. It required time, manpower and probably almost 200 billion dollar. Life will be not easy for the victims and rehabilitation process may take months. Most need of the hour is the process to wipe-out the fear from their mind.

!!!Wish with all my heart and hope that once again sun will rise brightly for Japanese.!!!