NEW YORK – Buried in the coverage of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake is a success story of which the world should not lose sight, because it tells us much about how we manage risk in the twenty-first century. It is the story of how the Japanese people, through centuries of memory and shared experience, have built up their resilience to natural disasters.
纽约--去年东日本大地震的新闻报道取得了世界各国都无法忽视的成功，因为这些报道告诉了我们人类是如何处理二十一世纪所面临的危机。这些感人的故事阐述了日本人民如何运用上百年积累的经验和传统来树立本民族抵抗自然灾害的能力。事实上，2011年3月11日那天，当汹涌海水的海水猛烈敲击日本的海岸线时，超过90%的受灾地区人口已经逃离到了安全区域。