1. Japan News August 31, 2010
Japan’s
Economic
Poverty
from
Japan’s
Past
Natural
History Disasters
Written by: Bridget John
In
1996
the
Sakurajima
Volcano
erupted
forty-­‐two
times
in
January,
thirty-­‐one
times
in
February
and
sixty-­‐nine
times
in
March.
It
was
the
second
largest
volcano
of
1996.
The
volcano
erupted
200
times
throughout
that
whole
year!
In
the
year
1995,
it
erupted
approximately
3-­‐4
million
tons
of
material
according
to
the
Sakurajima
Volcanological
Observatory
of
Kyoto
University.
In
January
1996
an
eruption
column
rose
three
kilometers
destroying
handfuls
of
houses
in
the
area.
In
1991
Super
Typhoon
Mireille
crossed
Japan
in
September,
making
it
the
deadliest
typhoon
of
In
Japan
there
have
been
many
horrible
natural
disasters
over
the
1991.
It
was
a
category
four
the
past
decade.
The
Great
Kanto
earthquake
in
1923,
the
typhoon
with
240
km/h
winds,
Hakko-­‐da
tsunami
in
1993,
the
Sakurajima
Volcano
explosion
lasting
twelve
days.
The
typhoon
in
1996
and
Typhoon
Mireille
in
1991
are
counted
as
some
of
created
16.1
billion
dollars
in
those
natural
disasters.
damage.
More
than
20,000
In
1923
the
Great
Kanto
earthquake
occurred
on
the
Japanese
buildings
were
destroyed.
Power
main
island
of
Honshu
killing
140,000
people,
making
it
the
outages
affected
six
million
people,
deadliest
earthquake
to
hit
Japan.
There
were
57-­‐recorded
10,000
people
were
left
homeless
aftershocks.
Over
570,000
homes
were
destroyed,
leaving
1.9
and
a
total
of
52
people
were
killed
million
living
on
the
streets.
The
damage
was
estimated
to
have
from
the
flooding
and
high
winds.
exceeded
one
billion
U.S.
dollars
in
1923.
Mireille
was
the
costliest
natural
disaster
of
1991.
On
July
12,
1993
a
large
earthquake
stroke
off
the
west
coast
of
Hokkaido
and
on
the
island
of
Okushiri,
generating
a
These
past
natural
disasters
in
destructive
tsunami.
A
total
of
239
people
were
killed.
More
Japan
have
led
to
destruction
of
than
half
of
the
deaths
were
attributed
to
the
tsunami.
A
total
of
housing
and
businesses,
which
has
558
houses
were
destroyed.
There
were
about
$600
million
in
created
poverty
throughout
the
property
losses
caused
mainly
by
the
tsunami.
country
and
is
predicted
to
continue
to
rise
drastically.