Satoshi Takisawa, writing in Japanese in the Yomiuri Weekly and translated here, asks: “How Will You Get Home After the Big One?”
What will happen when a major earthquake strikes the Tokyo area and transportation systems are paralyzed? Just for argument’s sake, if 100 people try to walk from their offices in Shinjuku to their homes in Yokohama in such a situation, how many of them will be able to reach home? None, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government.
And how did the government come up with this striking conclusion? They “assumed” it. Meanwhile, in the real world, we await slightly more educated guesses.
100 people who have no idea if their families are alive or dead, and not one of them has the tenacity to walk 25 km to find out?? Maybe the Tokyo bureaucrats who patched together this shoddy report are speaking for themselves.
[…] Via Japundit, voilà un article très interessant exposant une partie méconnue du problème qui arrivera à coup sûr lors du grand tremblement de terre prévu dans un futur proche à Tokyo : qu’arrivera-t-il à tout les gens travaillant à Tokyo mais vivant en banlieue si le tremblement de terre arrive en journée? […]
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