Japan ranks third among developed countries in terms of GDP after the United States and China. In terms of national development, human welfare, health, education, transparency, Japan is ahead of other countries. Among the least corrupt countries in the world, Japan ranks 18th out of 180 countries. Japanese people are honest, avoid lies, deceit, cheating, fraud and other crimes. They think of society more than individual thinking.
The latest example of this is the cleaning of the stadium by the fans of Japan after the match between Japan and Germany in the FIFA World Cup. In terms of crime, as of 2020, there were only 486 cases of crime out of every 100,000 in Japan, most of which were theft, but the number of murders and other serious crimes was extremely low. This number is decreasing year by year. If you look at the state of health in Japan, the oldest people in the world are found here. In 2020, the average age in Japan was about 85 years old, so Japan is leading the race as well.
Therefore, the society of Japan is the first society in human development, justice and other routines of life. But one of the misfortunes of this country is that there are many earthquakes here. The reason is the geography of this country. If you go to Japan, you will know that 73% of Japan’s area consists of mountains. Among which there are many volcanic mountains. While this country has many small and big islands with a total number of 6852. Thus, the length of Japan’s coastline is the sixth longest in the world.
As Japan is a country surrounded by mountains and seas. Fortunately, Japan is where many tectonic plates meet. These tectonic plates move so much that Japan experiences the most earthquakes in the world. How many? About 1,500 earthquakes occur every year, of which about 160 are magnitude 5 or greater on the Richter scale. These earthquakes are centered in Japan or in the sea near Japan. If this center is in the ocean, tsunamis occur here.
In 2011, Japan experienced the largest earthquake in recorded history with a magnitude of 9.1. It was an earthquake of such magnitude that it submerged many islands in Japan and nearly 20,000 people lost their lives. Apart from this, around 25 hundred people went missing. This number could have been higher if Japan had not built earthquake-proof houses with earthquake-friendly technology or provided timely emergency aid. In comparison, in 1923, an earthquake of magnitude 8.5 occurred in Japan, from which the number of dead was up to 150,000. So it will not be wrong to say that the loss of life and property caused by earthquakes is gradually decreasing in Japan with the use of technology.
Earthquakes will continue to occur in Japan in the future because the geography here is like this, Japan cannot get rid of these earthquakes even if it tries, but despite this, the people of Japan have normal life, health, education, justice, economy, morality in all of them. This is how Nations are built and progressed. They will continue to move forward.
