Just before noon on the morning of Sept. 1, 1923, a massive earthquake shook Japan’s Kanto Plain, hitting the busy industrial cities of Tokyo and Yokohama.
How Japan Became a Leader in Disaster Preparation
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Jane’s Heir
Mia Wasikowska slips through the lobby of New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria hotel, hat pulled low, scarf wrapped high, face scrubbed clean, a marvel of unadornment. If you hadn’t spent the previous evening at a screening of her new film, Jane Eyre, absorbed in her performance as the original plain Jane, you’d hardly notice her.