How is the Japan people facing the holocaust due to the earth-quake, Sunami and the nuclear danger? It seems from the report that despite the fact that thousands of valuable lives have been lost and towns themselves washed away and nuclear danger hanging on their heads, the Japan people are facing it squarely and in a disciplined, systematic way without becoming panicky. A write-up in ‘The Hidawada’ dated 20th March by Talveen Singh sums it up as follows:

” There are lessons in disaster management that India can learn from Japan. The orderly way in which rescuers went about their terrible task? The courage with which people who lost every thing behaved? The methodical checking for radiation exposure? The cleanliness of the camps in which victims took shelter? These are not things that we see in India at the best of times.”