Thank you! It indeed was not meant to be disrespectful. I'm actually very impressed with how prepared Japan was for this disaster. I'm quite sure that just about anywhere else in the world would have been almost hopelessly decimated by a disaster of this magnitude, but thanks to the infrastructure they had in place, be assured Japan will bounce back stronger than before.

That's not to say there wasn't horrible and irreversible loss here, I'm just saying it very likely isn't as bad as many people think, and were it not for their preparedness it would have been a lot worse.