11March2011 was a pivotal day for Japan. It is probable that the country won't completely recover for many decades yet to come. The Great Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear cataclysm might have forever changed the destiny of the nation. While the tsunami killed most of those who died, the subsequent Fukushima nuclear catastrophe will cost a TRILLION DOLLARS and take perhaps a half century to clean-up . This is my third nostalgic Tuesday on this subject, and I'm not sure when this series will end, for I arrived in Tokyo from Bangkok the day after the event , then soon thereafter felt it was too dangerous to stay, so I escaped to Beijing , which was my posting of last week. After a couple of days, I thought the radiation problem was not as serious as earlier thought, so I thought I would carefully return by first staying a few days in Seoul. It occurred to me then, and it weighs heavier today, that, while the entire populace of Japan was suffe...
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