JAPAN’S POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM WEAK LINK IN TIMES OF DISASTER
Japan’s ultramodern conveniences, its zippy bullet trains, automated ticketing systems and smart homes work just fine, until the power goes out.
The blackout across entire northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful earthquake struck showed the weak link in all that technology.
It’s a problem shared by most affluent, and increasingly many other countries, but seems more apparent in this seismically overactive nation, where earthquakes and tsunamis are a
