Japan Disaster

The world has seen many natural disasters and in recent history these happenings have been occurring far more often than they have in the past, the worst of which being, arguably, the recent attack on Japan by Mother Nature. The undersea mega-thrust off the coast of Japan caused a magnitude 9.0 tsunami to sweep the near shores of Japan with a blow large enough to leave the country in turmoil for years to come. The tsunami devastated every sort of industry operated in this area, including the importing and exporting, and has changed Japan's cultural ways possibly forever. This strike caused damages that would cost billions to repair, over 10,000 people dead, and most importantly, millions in search of the necessary tools to survive. (SPECIAL REPORT) Quite obviously, what a human needs most to survive is food, and after this natural disaster, feeding the entire population is getting more and more difficult as days go by, and repairing this major lack of resources in the near future seems about as possible as world peace.

When this vicious attack occurred, it left the entire population scrambling to grocery stores, gas stations, and basically any store that had food for sale. The reason for this mad rush was because the consumers had known that in the near future, the shelves of these stores would be completely empty, and they were pretty much right. The first of the items to disappear of off the shelves of these various places were the foods that a typical Japanese person would consume on a daily basis, such as milk, rice and bottled water. (Supermarket After Earthquake) With these items quickly disappearing, the Japanese had to turn to other types of foods that were considered to be more sophisticated, such as yogurt and soybeans, but these too had soon disappeared. (Vieru) They turned to these foods because they were locally grown or manufactured, but the fields and plants to make these products had been completely destroyed by the Earthquake. Eventually the government had set restrictions as to how much food each resident could buy at a time. (Allen) At this point it was obvious to Japan that they had to turn elsewhere for food, but to where they did not know.

The tsunami that struck this area had caused a nuclear power plants reactors to explode and this eventually led to a radiation leak which, as common sense would tell us, is not a very good thing for Japan. This radiation leaked into the air and eventually came down and settled into the water and land surrounding this area. This radiation soaked land and water would completely destroy the farming and fishing markets in the area. Fixing this in the nearby future would be entirely impossible and the outlook for Japan's future economy in these two fields of business is not very bright. Farmers in the area had lost their entire business as the fields they had once used to grow their crops were now enriched with a poison that had stopped all current production and would