The disaster of the earthquake and the following tsunami in Japanwas horrific in any language.
What impressed me was the stoicism and the unity of the people.
They organised themselves for this seemingly impossible task and everybody is confident the damage will be repaired and that country will rise again soon.
Contrast the lack of looting, the organisation and the order prevailing there with the looting in New Orleans after Katrina.
Contrast it also with Haiti which also has an earthquake but no tsunami and a year later little has been done in the way of reconstruction and murder and theft are commonplace.
What conclusions can we draw from these examples.
First, Japan is a homogenous society which has avoided the enrichment and division of the Western countries, a bit like we were in WW2. Countries like this have people who relate to each other and pull together and their united efforts can overcome seemingly insuperable obsticles.
Second Japanese people are intelligent and hard working. Contrast that with Haiti which has endemic poverty but which is also fairly homogenous but the population is African in origin.
A year after the earthquake they are still sitting around waiting for others to dig them out of their problems.
It will be said correctly that Japan is a modern state and has the resources to cope. But then disaster strikes Japan with frightening frequencies, and still they rise above them.
Also they have a low birthrate and an ageing population giving the lie to those who say we need immigrants to look after their old people.
But Haiti was the first Carribean state to be freed from slavery when the Japanese were also a peasant society.
While the Japanese had the brains to embrace modern technology Haiti adopted a government of corruption and its people embraced voodoo and plundered its rich vegetation.
Haiti has a better climate than Japan and neither has much in the way of natural resources but yet Japan prospers while Haiti was more or less a wasteland even before the earthquake.
They both had the same chances at the same time but with very different outcomes.
Meanwhile we import people of African origin who have shown themselves in every country they rule to be incapable of doing so efficiently and who dilute our national unity and even here most only achieve anything as a result of racist anti British discrimination in their favour.
And I have not even mentioned our tsunami, that of muslim immigration and breeding.
If a natural disaster strikes our country do you think we could cope as have the Japs?
No way, we are too divided with uneducated aliens in our midst, many who do not like the hand that at present feeds them.
We would have no chance.
The" Blitz spirit"of a united Britain?
Forget it.
