Predictions & Solutions for the Future
Although Japan suffered the loss of thousands of citizens and environmental destruction in March 2011, Japan is one of the world's top leaders in technology and a wealthy country. Because of its wealth Japan is rapidly recovering from the event that occurred nearly three years ago, on-going construction is taking place throughout the country and in Tokyo to host the 2020 Summer Olympics. The quake affected most people and the environment in the northeastern region of Tohoku. We predict that the Tohoku region will be brand new and completed in no time because of Japan’s stable economy and advancement in technology. Since Japan lacks natural resources such as aquifers for fresh water as well as nonrenewable resources such as petroleum and coal, we predict that Japan’s strong technology industry will be able to import these resources for its people. In the 2011 earthquake, Japanese citizens received Early Earthquake Warning text message alerts from the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA). Since Japan is very advanced in technology, we predict that if another natural disaster would occur more Japanese people will be safe and know how to respond. Besides rebuilding Japan’s infrastructures, there is a bigger problem: the damaged nuclear power plants in Fukushima. About two days ago the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) fixed some drainage pipes in the plants but there were still large amounts of leaking radioactive water which is really dangerous for residents nearby. A solution to this problem would be to use more renewable resources like trees; the government should allow a project to plant more trees in the area to give more oxygen to residents near the power plants. Along the shores of Japan debris is still washing up from the tsunami, a solution to this problem would be hiring a sanitation team to safely dispose of the debris at sanitary landfills.