Despite hysterical scaremongering in many parts of the media, there can be no doubt that Japan will quickly recover from the terrible earthquake off the port of Sendai, in northern Japan, which has cost the lives of tens of thousands of people, mainly as a result of a tsunami which swept up to 8 km inland, destroying coastal towns and villages in its path.
We can be confident of Japan’s recovery, because similar earthquake disasters have occurred before, in far more populous parts of …
