[Conscience of a Conservative]

Your point would be a good one, except that Japan has spent billions of dollars developing the most advanced earthquake early warning in the world, as well as some of the strictest building codes (each of which likely saved many lives in this quake).

To suggest that the Japanese would “humbly accept” these disasters as “inevitable” and not try to protect their citizens from these disasters is simply incorrect.

[oh8eleven]

To suggest that the Japanese would “humbly accept” these disasters as “inevitable” and not try to protect their citizens from these disasters is simply incorrect.
Wrong. First of all, you're incorrectly confusing the people's response with the government's.
Second, the Japanese people are extraordinarily pragmatic; they neither ignore nor minimize mother nature.
Fifteen years ago Kobe was almost wiped off the map, with over 6000 people dying. Unlike the Katrina "victims", you never heard a peep about how the government failed them.