Locals must be more active in tsunami readiness: experts

Step one in preparing for tsunami: build your house away from the beach.

Step two in preparing for a tsunami: build your nuclear reactors away from the beach.

Oracle, look what you've started. Step three: sell your car and buy a jet scooter.

Step 5 Make (all) the roads wider.

Step 6 No Parking on the roads.

Step 5.1 Have car parks.

Isn't this exactly what Ryu Matsumoto said, and he had to resign for saying it?

Step 7: When things start shaking, you have to save yourself. The government is totally inept and will not do anything for you.

Isn't this exactly what Ryu Matsumoto said, and he had to resign for saying it?

Yes.

Sarcasm font: But he had the stones to become indignant, when the elected official representing one of the affected areas, with hat in hand, arrived late...

Step 8: Have biohazard suits at home for when the nuclear reactors explode.

Step 9: Sign up to as many social networking sites as possible, learn how to read English, and get as much information as you can from as large and varied a range of sources as you can, because taking it only in Japanese, from your government censored media outlets is going to massively mislead you.

Ian Duncan:

Isn't this exactly what Ryu Matsumoto said, and he had to resign for saying it?

No, It's not.

This is about readiness. Matsumoto was talking about reconstruction.

And he was saying that devastated towns needed to come up with their own recovery ideas or they'd get no money. Which is highly insulting to towns that just lost all infrastructure including most of their town councillors.

Step 1: Prepare your home to be tsunami-resistant

Step 2: ??

Step 3: Profit

Past generations already did step "A"

They carved into large stones about past tsunami and how high they got. People ignored them, and then others eventually did not know about them.

The whole problem started with LAN speculators selling property that should never had been built on in the first place.

Land speculators. Sorry about that.

Step 9 Think for yourself, plan ahead and stop being sheeple

Land speculators or real estate? anyway the evil ones.....But it would also help if people heeded warnings that are put out-it may not save property but if you take notice, are alert, you will probably stay ahead of the tsunami. Im sure it can be tiring to be on edge each time there is warnings, but Id rather that inconvenience, than risking the odds. Especially when it does seem like a rather big quake.

Why you would want to buy land or live near the sea front in areas you know a tsunami will hit every 15-20 years beats me. I also don't understand Japanese who buy land or a mansion (apartment) on reclamation land, I mean how dumb can you be if even the government officially released public data puts it in a red zone with near 100% possibility of soil liquefaction in a large earthquake (example: http://www.city.yokohama.lg.jp/shobo/kikikanri/ekijouka-map/ ) You can make choices where you live considering some of these red areas are extremely expensive and you could easily buy a house in close proximity on solid rock that you know withstood even the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Read and take note of the stone markers that were erected many moons ago in tsunami prone northern areas and you should have no problems. They were put there for a reason you know: "High dwellings mean peace for descendants. Remember the disaster of the great tsunami. Do not build houses below here."

Man who builds house near beach is mother nature's bitch

let's all migrate to Neo-Tokyo!