In 30 years, there might be nothing left there but fancy breakwaters and empty houses.
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Naoki Hayashi, a researcher at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry. he says Japan’s dwindling resources would be better spent merging communities destroyed by the tsunami into inland “compact towns” offering centralized services. (New York Times)
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tmarie
100% agree with this. There is no point in rebuilding many of the communities taken out by 3/11. Why? Because they were dying communities anyway. Merge them, save OUR tax money and build smart. Young people are leaving the area, no one in their right mind would want to move there when there is nothing there and the old people are dying off. Ignore the 'But it was my hometown" comments from the nearly dead and merge them with other communities. Saves on town development, government offices and if you put a bunch of these old folks together, you are building a new community for them and giving them a chance to meet new people and friends rather than sit and rot in places far from others. Why people think every town needs to be rebuilt is beyond me. Waste of resources, money and effort.
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Cos
Rebuilding at the same places is as wise as what Tepco did when they put the power plants at the sea side. That will be destroyed. It's only questions of when and how badly.As there are so many empty houses all over Japan, they could have relocated everybody. They'd have saved victims the weeks of eating old bread in the cold gyms without electricity, the months of camping in the shelters, the years of refugee camp life in temp housing from now.
The victims feel they have nowhere else to go, and the only thing they hope is authorities rebuild their town. It's because Japan has not the habit of giving benefits/ insurance to people and to let them decide of their fate. They consider people like children. They never give them the money, they give to the parents (the town hall). Even the charity money. Givers are either ignorant or they don't care as they give only to appear nice. The charities don't give it to people. The money has become funds at the disposal of local politicians. So you can see why every little mayor wants the money to stay in his town.
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kurisupisu
Maybe the Red Cross should be donating its billions of yen for this?
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