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April 6, 2015

Disaster industry is thriving in Japan

  • The government is aggressively peddling disaster-related technology such as hard hats that look like baseball caps and surgical floors that won't shake in a quake.
    • By ELAINE KURTENBACH
    AP Business Writer

    SENDAI, Japan — Mankind is powerless to prevent calamities such as typhoons and earthquakes, but in Japan where the devastating 2011 tsunami still looms large, there's a flourishing industry in devising ways to cope with catastrophe.

    Some of the products on display at an exhibition on the sidelines of a recent United Nations disaster conference in the northeastern city of Sendai featured high-tech innovations and new materials. But many were just inventive, practical solutions for challenges such as quickly getting people out of harm's way.


     
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