All over Tokyo there is constant reconstruction. The engineers and demolitions crews are extremely talented in the way they can tear down a 15 story building and not damage the building on all three sides of it. I’m always amazed at how they manage to do it. It’s usually done by ripping off the front, then putting in a cherry picker that climbs a big dirt pile and slowly pull down the other three walls into the middle of the lot. I’ve never seen or heard of a disaster like this one in Japan, but I’m sure accidents have happened. Very unfortunate for the dead and injured and the demolition company in this story.
Few such disasters like that here in Japan. Correct.
Superior to South Korea in so many respects.
That’s not to say they did not have a lot of horrid mass casualty accidents like that in the high growth years in 1960s.