Japan Crisis ABBCST

Blake Roberts

Arya Jahan

Courtney Wallace

Scott Harris

Trevor Neuenswander

Brett Michel

 

 

Japan Crisis

     

After the Civil War thousands had died and the country needed to be reunited as a whole. Reconstruction can apply to anything. When you reconstruct something you rebuild it or repair it, which is exactly what the country had to do. The U.S.A had to rebuild its social structure after the Civil War to reincorporate the south states into the Union. Japan has to reconstruct in a similar way. Many of its major cities are unstable and need help. There is almost no water or food that is pure and uncontaminated by radiation. These both included major losses of life. The reconstruction of Japan after the tsunami and of the U.S. after the Civil War are very similar.

After the war America faced many problems. First and foremost, its plantation owners needed a new way to plant the crops, harvest them, and transport them. “The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery.” Many African Americans still worked on plantations but without the pain and now they would be paid. Another huge problem was the debt America was now in. They had to pay for weapons, soldiers, provisions, and supplies. The way they dealt with this was by taxing the people. Many people died but all they could do to solve that was repopulate. “How should the nation be reunited? What system of labor should replace slavery? What would be the status of the former slaves?” This would make a quite difficult task. In later years they were still discriminated upon.

Japan obviously needs to somehow repair. Ways they can do this is by taxing, which they have already done. In other countries, programs and donations have been made to support the dying country. Many of their buildings were destroyed and those will most likely have to be repaired. “The relentless wall of water which the quake unleashed killed thousands of people, swept away whole towns, inundated roads and knocked ports, oil refineries, steel plants and factories out of action.” They will have to find different ways to get power, food, and water. All of these tasks will probably take many years. “Rebuilding after the devastating quake and tsunami is likely to take years, and it could be several years before significant construction work begins, engineering organizations say.”

The Civil War and Japan tragedy had many comparisons. First off, many people died, in fact, thousands died in both instances. Both have and will take many years to recover from deaths, money, supplies, and debt. The differences between the two are that Japan’s tragedy was natural and the Civil War was not. The Civil war had many more deaths while Japan had few thousands. The civil war had about 618,000 deaths and Japan had about 16,000. This shows that the Civil War was much more bloody. Japan has to rebuild many more buildings while the Civil War didn’t knock down so many buildings. Also, the Civil War did not have to deal with radiation contamination.

In total both were very bloody and costly. One was natural while the other was man made. They have caused huge amounts of grief and pain. Missing and wounded people have come from both. Yet, from all, there are survivors of every war, battle, dispute, and disaster. They will be remembered in their similarities.