Tsunami Pics

Here are more photos of the aftermath:

(Rescue team members carry the body of a man through splintered remains of the village of Saito.)

(A tsunami wave crashes over a street in Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on March,11.)

(Exports were on the rise in recent months as Japan recovered from March's earthquake and tsunami)

Pictures of The Tsunami

(Eight months on from the earthquake and tsunami that laid waste to almost 600km (373 miles) of Japan's north-east coastline, much of the rubble has been cleared in towns like Minamisanriku, where more than 1,350 people were reported as missing or dead.)

 (Flattened buildings smolder in an aerial picture of the Japanese town of Yamada on Saturday, the day after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami hit the region. Hundreds of bodies have been pulled from the wreckage, and thousands remain missing.)

                                                (Tsunami Earthquake- Third Explosion)

Summary Of Tsunami Paper

I chose to research and discuss how the U.S. and Japan was affected in aspects of the trade of imports amongst each other.  I feel it very fascinating that the United States is very dependent on the materials that Japan has and always I guess have had.  The U.S. in some ways benefited from this disaster such as, the rise in American made cars being one.  With Japan rebuilding from the damage, many of the major companies like Toyota, Honda and Nissan either had to shut down or be forced to cut back on their production.  Which gave the American car companies a way to increase the plummeted job market in the U.S. as well as increasing the revenue of American made cars.

(A fire truck attends to burned-out cars at the Hitachi Harbor port northeastern Japan)

There have been some benefits for the U.S. and then again it has also been some downfalls and losses from food and technology exports from Japan to the U.S.  Bringing me to my argument that the U.S. and will still strive as a country without any raw materials being imported or exported from Japan.  That the U.S. has the means and know how to obtain the things this country needs through other resources that is not openly spoken about. 

  

Devastations of The Tsunami in Japan

I felt this video will give all an in depth look at what Japan has endured and how devastating the affects were.

Here is another video link of  a news report on the decline of Japan's economy.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/japan-earthquake-tsunami-lawrence-summers-economists-fallout-negatively/story?id=13113670

My Intro to my Blog

Wow.... Never did a blog before so I guess here I go.  Im doing this blog for my honors english class to present a presentation on "The Impact of the Earthquake in Japan on U.S. Imports and Exports.  I believe I chose this topic because I honestly wanted to know how we the ( U.S.) would be affected by the natural disaster that happened in Japan.  I know that there is alot of trading that is done with Japan and finding out how badly the U.S. will be affected peaked my curiosity. So with further research I discovered that the U.S. will benefit greatly from the tsunami that occured in Japan earlier this year. Continue to check my blog for further details on this matter.

Have a blessed day...