Gov't to boost financial aid to regions hit by recent disasters

Folks, look at the picture, all or most of those slopes were plantations of SUGI!

THAT is what this disaster is so bad, if you look at landslides you will notice this pattern repeated a LOT.

Folks, NEVER live near slopes planted with SUGI, accidents waiting to happen!

Talk about a picture telling a thousand words! What a picture!

I would indeed not like to live directly under a hill or mountain but in the bottom of the photo, the sand/trees slid all the way over the ricefield, that is much further than I would expect it to flow tbh. Scary stuff.

But that's one tenth less than a Agies anti missiles system? Aren't the Fucashima refugees still living in temporary housing? Mmmmm priorities I guess.

i hope japan will try to stop typhoons with science or innovations : to save animals, nature, towns, lifes, cars

GW - Spot on. My father-in-law has pointed this out for the 30 years I have known him. it is rare to travel a mountain road in central Kyushu and see a forest of native trees.

OntheTrail,

yep, these are for the most part man made disasters, PERIOD!