Chapter 245: Tsunami
For this unlucky Hakabi envoy, Tang Ning originally planned to send someone to protect his safety, but Hakabi was frightened by the "enthusiastic" Japanese people, and it is estimated that he is the first time to encounter a helicopter rescue situation, so he resolutely does not want Japanese guards, only believes in American soldiers, if Tang Ning is not an American, it is estimated that Hakabi will not necessarily see him
However, even after being treated like this, Special Envoy Hakabi still firmly reached an agreement with Kishi Nobusuke and resolutely refused to change the treaty. This hard-line attitude led to a wave of popular revolt, and on June 15, 5.8 million people protested against the signing of the treaty and the visit of the President of the United States to Japan. That night, 7,000 students stormed the Diet and clashed with 3,000 riot police, killing a female student at the University of Tokyo. The contradictions have further intensified.
On June 16, the Kishi government requested that Eisenhower's visit to Japan be postponed until it was cancelled. On the night of the treaty's automatic entry into force, 330,000 demonstrators surrounded the parliament to prevent the treaty from entering into force. Although Japan's vigorous security struggle did not prevent the treaty from entering into force, it prompted Nobusuke Kishi to step down and President Eisenhower to terminate his visit to Japan. Succeeding Nobusuke Kishi was his younger brother Eio Sato.
The protest against the security and peace covenant marched in several cities in Japan, but what made Downing feel speechless the most was that the coal miners in China who were obedient (not allowed to appear are really place names, so a near-phonetic word was used) actually joined in the fun, holding a demonstration of up to 400,000 people, claiming to support the Japanese people's just struggle against the Japan-US military alliance treaty, and opposing the crimes of the Japanese and American reactionaries in persecuting and suppressing the Japanese Miike coal miners.
Since this demonstration was attended by Kinoshimichi, a representative of the delegation of the General Council of Japanese Trade Unions, there were also relevant reports in Japan, but when Tang Ning saw this report, especially when he saw the speech of Shen Yue, secretary of the Fushun Municipal Party Committee, he couldn't help but laugh and cry. I said in my heart, there is a mess in Japan, and it would be good if there were no firecrackers in the country, and you were still helping to demonstrate, and this is the most serious year of the three-year difficult period, and you yourself can't eat enough. There's also the leisure to talk about this, I really don't know what you think.
On July 14, he attended a reception for the new president of the Liberal Democratic Party, Yuto Ikeda, and was stabbed by a member of the right-wing group "Daikakai" Aramaki Resuke, and the assassin was arrested on the spot, but Kishi Nobusuke also suffered serious leg injuries, but fortunately his life was not endangered.
Interestingly. Nobusuke Kishi was not alone in receiving the same treatment this year, as former Japanese Socialist Party leader Inagijiro Asonuma was assassinated by Japanese right-wingers at an election meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on October 12, and the entire process was filmed at that time. "Eyewitnesses" reported that the attacker, a 17-year-old right-winger named Fusaya Yamaguchi, suddenly rushed to the rostrum while Inajiro Asumuma was speaking at the conference and stabbed Inajiro Asumuma in the waist with a Japanese saber, causing his death.
It was not only a year of political turmoil in Japan. In reality, it didn't get much better, in May of this year. A sudden, unusually strong earthquake struck the seabed in south-central Chile. The magnitude of the earthquake is so high, the duration is long, and the area affected is so wide. The earthquake lasted until June 23, and 225 earthquakes of different magnitudes occurred in a period of more than one month. There were as many as 10 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or higher, of which 3 were magnitude 8 or higher. The earthquake also triggered a massive tsunami that left tens of thousands of people dead and missing. Docks along the coast were all paralyzed and 2 million people were left homeless, making it the world's largest and worst tsunami disaster.
The tsunami was not just a Chilean disaster, but also a fairly wide area. The east and west coasts of the Pacific Ocean, such as the Hawaiian Islands of the United States, Japan, Russia, China, the Philippines and many other countries and regions. All of them have been affected to varying degrees, and some of them have suffered heavy losses.
After the earthquake, the tsunami wave swept across the western Pacific islands at a speed of 700 kilometers per hour. In just 14 hours, we arrived in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States. When they reached the Hawaiian Islands, the waves were 9-10 meters high, and the waves destroyed the breakwater on the west coast of the island, washing down a large number of trees, power poles, houses, and construction facilities along the embankment, flooding large swathes of land. In less than 24 hours, the tsunami wave covered a distance of about 17,000 kilometers. Arrived at the Japanese archipelago on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. At this time, the waves are still very rough, with waves up to 6-8 meters high and the maximum waves up to 8.1 meters. Rolling waves rage through the coastal cities of the Japanese islands. In Honshu, Hokkaido, and other places, ships berthing in harbors, harbors along the coast, and various buildings and facilities were greatly damaged. The cities, the villages, and some houses on the Pacific coast, as well as some people who had not yet had time to flee, were swept into the sea by the sudden waves. The disaster, which was devastated by the Chilean tsunami, killed hundreds of people in Japan, washed away nearly 4,000 houses, sank more than 100 ships, and destroyed most of the coastal docks, ports and facilities.
If the large-scale demonstrations in Japan in 1960 only made Downing's business weaker and less profitable, then the catastrophe caused by the tsunami really made him bleed. One is that his Guam location facilities have also been damaged by the waves, and the other is that his insurance company's compensation bill has skyrocketed in an instant.
Fortunately, Tang Ning is also a person who has been in the insurance company, knowing that this kind of large-scale natural disaster is not only when the insurance company loses money, but also when it is a time to take this opportunity to make a reputation, so when the disaster situation has just stabilized, Tang Ning ordered Xichuan to take the initiative to go to the affected coastal city with the compensation money to pay compensation, which not only seems to be active, but also in the future when the salesman does publicity, he can also directly take this matter as an example, as a guarantee that the company cares about the public and has a good reputation.
Facts have proved that the response to this approach is quite good, and when other insurance companies are passively waiting, East Asia Insurance Company took the initiative to go into the disaster area, approach the victims, handle the claim business on the spot, and personally deliver the claim payment to the customer, of course, it was also filmed by the accompanying reporters. Therefore, although the claim payment is not much, the effect is very good. (To be continued......)