When the worst of it was over, the country seemed to utter a collective sigh of relief, 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. » | Sonia Verma | Wednesday, September 21, 2011
