[PGR88]

Just pray for them. Japan, for all its problems, is in pretty good shape. It has a smart, educated populace who are cooperating and not rioting. Its infrastructure is top-notch. The electricity is on everywhere and besides some short-term panic, things are running normally (except in Sendai, of course)

They have Trillions of dollars, so much so that any extra aid the USA offers them, will probably have to be borrowed from Japanese or Chinese in the first place!!

[wendy1946]

No nation is rich enough to deal with a nine-point earthquake without help. There were rich cities and nations before the flood too, and some of them are still sitting there beneath the waves:

[rob777]

"They have Trillions of dollars, so much so that any extra aid the USA offers them, will probably have to be borrowed from Japanese or Chinese in the first place!!"


Actually, they have the biggest debt crisis of any industrialized nation after trying to spend their way out of "The Lost Decade".

[rob777]

"The electricity is on everywhere and besides some short-term panic, things are running normally (except in Sendai, of course)"


That is a small comfort for those of us with family members in Sendai and the surrounding area.