Japan has so many natural disasters that their culture is steeped in adapting to the whole disaster process. For example, here is a webpage about a museum exhibit dedicated to their history of disaster, the Rekihaku Special Exhibition of the National Museum of Japanese History, “Documenting Disasters in Japan from 1703 to 2003”. They say:
“Located at the subduction zone of oceanic plates, Japan frequently experiences earthquakes, volcanic eruptions , and tsunamis, the earliest recorded disaster being that of the 684 Hakuho Quake. The number of tsunamis in Japan totals 195 over a 1,313 year period, averaging one event every 6.7 years, the highest rate of occurrence in the world.”
There is also a detailed list of Volcano Eruptions being tracked at Current Eruptions in Japan, provided by the VRC-ERI, Univ. of Tokyo.
July 5, 2009- Fire in a game parlor: 4 dead, 19 injured.
2008 - Over 870 Japanese have killed themselves by inhaling toxic fumes from household chemicals, 30 times more than in 2007, the government said, as reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
June 14, 2008 – Iwati Earthquake kills 12, injures 258; 10 reportedly missing.
November 7, 2007 – Saroma Tornado slays 9, harms 26
March 25, 2007 – Noto Earthquake, 1 dead, 214 hurt
2006 to Present – Japan’s elderly (65+) are criminals! They have exceeded their youth’s criminal activity (at least as far as being caught for their wrongdoing); I wonder where their children get such role models… you don’t have to look very far. Proverbs 16:31- The hoary head [i.e. silver, gray haired] is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Of course in Japan, this isn’t the case.
July 14, 2005 – Northern Japan Flooding sweeps away 11 to Hell
April 25, 2005 – Amagasaki Railroad Crash takes the lives of 107; 649 hurt
March 20, 2005 – Fukuaka Earthquake kills 1, 1087 God-smacked but alive
August 2004 – Mihama Nuclear Power Plant’s Steam Leak kills 4, and 7 others injured
2004 – Japan has the highest female suicide rate in the world (9.5 per 100,000)
September 12, 2000 - Nagoya’s flooding triggered by Saomai Typhoon drown/overwhelm/inundate 7
June 28, 1998 - Heavy rains, flooding, and a grand total of 854 landslides; leaves 29 dead and 16 missing
January 17, 1995 - Kobe Earthquake a/k/a Great Hanshin Earthquake kills 6433; 2 million affected; cost of 131 trillion dollars in damage.
October 23, 1994 – Chuetsu Earthquake causes 39 to perish; 3000 injured
July 22, 1993 - Tsunami in Hokkaido destroys 129 people
August 12, 1985 – Japan Airlines Flight 123… All 15 crew members and 505 out of 509 passengers died, resulting in a total of 520 deaths. The LORD of Hosts left a grand total of 4 people alive to warn their fellow neighbors. Inquiring minds want to know if they actually did their duty…
August 9, 1945- God caused the Doomed american brutes to work His Will; the LORD kills and makes alive: as many as 140,000 were killed in Hiroshima, Japan from the atomic blast of “Little Boy” and the radiation poisoning
August 6, 1945- God caused the Doomed american brutes to work His Will; the LORD kills and makes alive: as many as 80,000 were killed in Nagasaki, Japan from the atomic blast of “Fat Man” and the radiation poisoning
March 9, 1945- God sent the Doomed american brutes to bomb Tokyo, Japan; Japan was steeped in idolatry then, and is worse today: “more than 16 square miles of Japan's capital city were gutted, [2,000,000] were left homeless, and 100,000 were dead.”
September 1, 1923- Tokyo and Yokohama were devastated by an earthquake, causing massive damage and killing 140,000 dead. “Hundreds of thousands of houses crumbled or burned.” “Side effects: Twelve-meter high tsunami crashed against Atami on the Sagami Gulf, destroyed 155 houses and killed 60 people.”
1896- A giant tsunami drowned 27,000 people in Japan.
1703- The LORD visited Awa, Japan, in a tsunami, killing more than 100,000.
