Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - 2012
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and … the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 …, including persistently low growth, population aging and low fertility, burgeoning government debt, declining international …