Living in Japan

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1. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

2. Japan is a big country and disasters are generally quite local. They’re pretty far from being a regular experience. Plan for what could happen and live your life.

3. My life goal is to live in Japan and I just love sakura and I’ve never seen one physically. I also love snow which I planned to move somewhere in Hokkaido. I don’t wanna waste my efforts of learning Japanese (although, I only made small progresses).

4. Earthquake – houses are flexible enough to withstand earthquakes that would be devastating for other countries.

   Typhoon/flooding – Only badly affects a very limited area.

   Volcano – Population centers aren’t very close by.

   Tsunami – You saw what happened in 2011? However not sure if it would hit a city like Tokyo directly since it’s inside a bay.

5. Back home we have mass shootings. Go ask them why the fuck they stick around. I don’t even have to name the country. You know where I’m talking about.

   So I guess my indirect answer is that different places have different plusses and minuses and Japan has more plusses than other places I’ved lived. Except Norway, but I don’t have a visa there.

6. There sure is a risk of natural disaster, but it is not major issue. The lower risk of crime kinda makes up for it, and yeah, Japanese nature is breathtaking.

   But for most, this is not a major factor. Instead it is the culture and people, who attract us.

7. What natural disaster? Never experienced one. 🤷‍♂️

8. Let’s imagine there’s a place somewhere on earth where disasters happen on average every 3 generation. The people living there wouldn’t think of countermeasures in their everyday life and society would blame nature or gods when a catastrophy do happen. Count numerous casualties. Then move on.

   Now let’s say there’s another place where natural phenomenon occurs almost yearly and “disaster level” events every like five years for example. Society as a whole would be focused on damage limiting countermeasures, people would have learn how to behave after experiencing countinously such events for generations. When even a major phenomenon occurs consequences are very minor. There is of course the exception of “the big one” (2011 tsunami for ex), but you can classify it as inevitable and even then there are things to learn to prepare for the next.

   So yes from an external pov there is the scary image but in reality with the mentalities and infrastructure here the general feeling is life here is very safe regarding earth phenomenons.

   Much higher probability to have a car accident hitting a deer on the way home.

   Good luck with your text

9. Depends what you’d rather deal with. Plus, this is a country very prepared for all the natural disasters it’s at risk of facing, so while it is concerning, it’s not something to lose sleep over

10. Disasters come and go, humans migrate and thrive in all conditions. Y’all have people living in Svalbard. I’ll take natto and kusaya any day over your Norwegian winters though!