April 15th, Sendai City, Japan, heavy rain!

Sendai City is the largest economic and cultural center in the Tohoku region of Japan's main island of Honshu and the capital of Miyagi Prefecture, with a population of one million, and was the closest city to the epicenter of the Great East Japan Earthquake of April 13. The surging sea water rushed across the embankment and into the mainland, sweeping through the coastal areas, engulfing Sendai Airport and Sendai New Port, and the earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city's transportation, electricity, communications, and water supply systems, paralyzing them all, and many buildings were damaged or even collapsed and washed away by the sea.

The sea is gradually receding into the sea, but large areas are still submerged. Although the heavy rain caused a lot of inconvenience to the rescue work, it also extinguished many fires in the city, and although black smoke can still be seen in the sky, it is much better than the thick smoke billowing on April 14. Cracks and collapses can be seen everywhere on the road, and some can even trap vehicles in them. Of course, the most seen are all kinds of debris washed by the sea, including broken houses, large and small vehicles, and even ships and the remains of the victims. Due to the severe damage to the roads leading into the disaster area and the fact that the sea water washed a large amount of debris inland, it is difficult to meet the needs of the victims of Sendai City, and the Japanese government has to use helicopters to air transport supplies to ensure the basic needs of the citizens.

At noon, when the rain turned light, Yukio Hatoyama personally took a helicopter to Sendai to inspect the relief work, accompanied by Defense Minister Toshihide Tanaka and many others. Helicopters hovered over the city, and it was clear from the planes that the coastal areas of Sendai City were in ruins, and there were no houses in sight.

"If you look over there, it's Sendai Airport. Miyagi Prefecture Governor Wakabu Jiro pointed to the distance, "Unfortunately, after the tsunami, the sea flooded the entire airport, the terminal building also tilted severely, and as many as nine passenger planes were damaged." ”

Yukio Hatoyama looked in the direction he was pointing and sighed in his heart. If Sendai Airport had not been seriously damaged, it would have been possible to use cargo planes to rush supplies, which would have been much more convenient than helicopter transporting them over long distances. However, it is not possible to restore Sendai Airport to the point where it can take off and land normally. The tsunami not only severely damaged Sendai Airport, but also destroyed the port of Sendai, which is now a mess, and even those who are familiar with it will not be able to see it as it is. If the port of Sendai were still in operation, it would be easier to transport relief supplies to Sendai by sea than by air. Today's Japanese government still has sufficient materials for disaster relief, but if these materials cannot be transported to the disaster area, what role can they play?

Toshihide Tanaka's face was also gloomy, and many military facilities in the disaster area were also seriously damaged, among which the most painful thing for him was the Matsushima military base where the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force's Third Air Island was stationed, which was not only completely submerged, but also as many as 15 F-2 fighters were damaged and soaked, causing extremely staggering losses. Although people's attention is now focused on emergency rescue and disaster relief, Tanaka Toshihide thinks that this will inevitably become an excuse for political opponents to attack him in the future.

However, he does not have the energy to deal with this now, and in order to provide disaster relief, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces have already taken action on land, sea and air, and the US military has also provided convenience to Japan, and even sent an aircraft carrier to anchor at sea not far from Sendai City to assist Japan in disaster relief. All aspects need command and coordination, and he, the Minister of Defense, is also too busy to hit the back of the head.

"Governor Wakayu, the headquarters is now doing its best to send people to clear the roads into the disaster area, and we are not short of relief supplies now, but our transportation capacity is limited. It is hoped that the county will do its best to maintain social order and assist the headquarters in opening the channel as soon as possible. Hatoyama Yukio said. After the catastrophe, the Japanese government immediately informed the world that many countries, including Huaxia and South Korea, had sent professional rescue teams, and several rescue teams had arrived in Japan and entered the disaster area to carry out their work. The total amount of materials and donations received by the Japanese government from overseas in the past two days is more than $500 million, and the Japanese government itself has raised a huge amount of funds and materials that can be put into the disaster area at any time, so Yukio Hatoyama is still very confident.

"Hey, Your Excellency Prime Minister, please rest assured that we will do our best to accomplish this task!" Wakayujiro replied.

"By the way, there are a large number of Chinese in Miyagi County, the county should take more care of their post-disaster life, and pay more attention to their personal safety, Fang Jun donated excess materials and donations this time, don't let Fang Jun complain that we don't take care of his countrymen in the future. Yukio Hatoyama said lightly, but there was a bit of undoubted taste in his tone.

"Hey!" Wakabu Jiro was stunned for a moment, and then responded, "I will definitely take the advice of His Excellency the Prime Minister to heart." "He has also heard some rumors, although he still doesn't know if it's true or not, but if it's true, then I'm afraid someone will be unlucky. Of course, it is definitely not Yukio Hatoyama and Fang Jun who are unlucky......

Yukio Hatoyama's gaze turned back to the window, looking down at the devastated land, and the cabin was temporarily quiet.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, on behalf of the more than 2.4 million people of Miyagi Prefecture, I would like to solemnly express my gratitude to you. If you hadn't resisted the pressure to allow the Fukushima Daiichi and No. 2 nuclear power plants to start generating electricity, we might now have to face not only the pain of the earthquake and tsunami, but also the threat of nuclear radiation. I would like to express my deep apologies to you, Your Excellency the Prime Minister, for our inappropriate remarks!" Wakabu Jiro said with a look of shame. As a neighbor of Fukushima Prefecture, he had heard some rumors beforehand, and he had been concerned about the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daiichi nuclear power plants as soon as they were since.

Although the main facilities of the nuclear power plant did not have irreparable problems, experts also analyzed that if the two nuclear power plants were still in operation at that time, according to their design indicators, they could withstand earthquakes of 8.2 magnitude, strong earthquakes and tsunamis would cause the nuclear reactor to shut down automatically, but the cooling system was needed to cool the reactor, and the earthquake destroyed the external power supply of the nuclear reactor, and the nuclear reactor was shut down and could not generate any power by itself, so the backup power system must be activated, that is, the diesel generator provides electricity to the cooling system. Then the tsunami came, flooding all the diesel generators, rendering them completely inoperable.

The earthquake occurred at 10:34 p.m., and shortly after that tsunami crashed into the nuclear power plant, killing and injuring the staff of the nuclear power plant. There is a high probability that the two nuclear power plants will explode! And if an explosion occurs, not only Fukushima Prefecture, but also many surrounding prefectures will inevitably be affected!

Although experts do not say that two nuclear power plants will definitely explode, such a thing as a nuclear accident, even if there is a 1 percent or 1 in 1,000 chance, is intolerable, let alone an adjective like "very likely".

Due to Yukio Hatoyama's insistence, the two nuclear power plants were shut down for more than a month, and on the basis of the original diesel generator sets in the two nuclear power plants, a number of special interfaces were built to ensure that even ordinary diesel generators can be connected in an emergency. This series of measures ensured that the two nuclear power plants, although they also had many problems in the strong earthquake and tsunami, were not fatal and irreparable.

"Oh, did Governor Wakao apologize for this incident not long ago?" said Yukio Hatoyama for a moment.

"We are really guilty of such a big mistake. Wakabu Jiro said apologetically. The closure of six nuclear power plants, including the Fukushima Daiichi and Daiichi nuclear power plants, will also have a significant impact on Miyagi Prefecture's power supply. As the governor of Miyagi Prefecture, Wakasuijiro did not publicly criticize Yukio Hatoyama, but he naturally did not have any good words in private, and he did not lenilate or guide the dissatisfaction of the prefecture. Although it is said that the position of governor of Miyagi Prefecture was not appointed by Yukio Hatoyama, but was elected by Miyagi Prefecture internally, Yukio Hatoyama could not directly remove him from his post, but Wakakujiro would not be so blind at this time.

Yukio Hatoyama waved his hand and said, "Now everything is based on disaster relief as the top priority, so let's not mention this matter for the time being." If there was any misunderstanding before the governor, I can understand it. "Yukio Hatoyama is certainly not the kind of good man who repays grievances with virtue, but he is only expanding the scope of the attack without limit. And if the hard work is not used, after this incident, if there is any more controversial policy during the administration of Yukio Hatoyama, I believe that the governor of Wakasu will definitely think twice, and this will be enough.

A big stone in Governor Ruosheng's heart fell to the ground, and he felt the pressure on his shoulders suddenly lighten a lot.

"More than 20,000 people were killed or missing in this disaster in Miyagi Prefecture, and the number of injured and homeless people is even greater. Yukio Hatoyama thought for a moment and said, "Although the government is already preparing funds to help you rebuild your homeland, you should not think that the government can trust it all. ”

"Hey! Wakao understands!" Wakabu Jiro replied without hesitation. As the governor of a prefecture, equivalent to the governor of China, he naturally knows, although Japan is the second in the world...... It is the third largest economy, but the Japanese government has one of the largest debts in the world. According to the data that have been made public, at the end of last year, the Japanese Government's debt balance was 920 trillion yen, accounting for nearly 200 percent of Japan's GDP! While the United States, which is also a developed country, had only 90 percent of its debt to its GDP, Britain's debt was 81 percent, Germany's was 80 percent, and France's was 93 percent! It can be seen from this data that the Japanese Government's debt is already extremely huge.

This is because since the bursting of Japan's bubble economy, in order to stimulate economic growth and to cope with multiple economic crises, the Japanese government has cut taxes on a large scale, resulting in a significant reduction in tax revenue. Last year, the Japanese government's tax revenue was only 64 percent of what it was in 1990! Tax revenue fell sharply, but because Japan has entered an aging society, the government's various financial expenditures have increased unabated, so successive governments have had to issue treasury bonds on a large scale to make up for the fiscal shortfall.

The occurrence of the "Great East Japan Earthquake" on April 13 caused heavy losses to Japan's economy and will have a serious negative impact on this year's gross national product. In the case of post-disaster reconstruction, the government will need to invest as much as 10 trillion yen, or even more. Such a huge amount of money, with the current level of government finance, is not an easy task. It's not something that Yukio Hatoyama can say in a word. And this time the disaster is not only in Miyagi Prefecture, even if Yukio Hatoyama can raise funds, divide one point in many places, and finally fall to Miyagi Prefecture, how much money can be paid, it's really hard to say.

Yukio Hatoyama looked at Toshihide Tanaka and sighed for a while, he wanted to reduce some of his military spending, but Japan's military spending was calculated in dollars, and it was surpassed by China in 2007, and now it has fallen to sixth place. Although Britain, France, and Russia are only a few billion dollars behind Japan, Japan's Self-Defense Forces, which once ranked second in the world in terms of military spending, have fallen to sixth place, far below China, and many people in the country are dissatisfied. Moreover, a considerable proportion of Japan's military expenditures are to be handed over to US troops stationed in Japan as "protection money," and only about half of them belong to Japan's Self-Defense Forces, and it is difficult for him to reduce them. Otherwise, it will inevitably cause a strong backlash from Japan's Self-Defense Forces and domestic military enterprises.

"Let us remember the tragic lesson of this time, that human life is too short and too easy to forget. "We have experienced many tsunamis, such as Miyagi Prefecture in 1960, when it was hit by the tsunami caused by the Chilean earthquake. After that, we built a 10-metre-high breakwater and thought we would be able to sit back and relax. But once again, nature has taught us!" Just before coming to Miyagi Prefecture today, he saw a report about the disaster prevention command center in Minamisanriku Town, Miyagi Prefecture. The three-storey hall was in tatters and stood alone in the ruins. According to survivors, the massive tsunami swept away hundreds of local residents and government officials who had taken refuge on top of the hall more than 10 meters high.

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