Japan vs China Reaction

Japan was hit with an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9, and Asia is hit with 40% of the world's disasters. China expresses how they are very impressed with the way Japan handled the disaster. They "admired the Japanese people's calm and orderly response to the disaster." Asia, on the other hand, deals with setbacks on every disaster that comes their way. "Efforts to reduce poverty and improve the quality of life in developing countries could suffer sizeable setbacks." The difference is, Japan prepares very specifically for disasters. School houses and buildings are build to stand sustained movement, while China lost thousands of school children because the building was not build to sustain an earthquake, and they deal with more trouble in people stealing and vandalizing. The country that better prepared for a disaster calmly dealt with how to go about in continuing their lives, while the country that did not prepare had more unfortunate reactions.