Last year in November 2011, I had a vacation in Japan with my sisters. While trying very hard to stick to our itinerary and avoid getting lost in Tokyo city, I made a remark to my sister, Shiyun that the Tokyo that we were looking at was likely to be at its peak in modern history.
At that point of time, I was thinking along the lines of macro economics, like aging population, economic issues and their low reproduction rates (despite having an insane amount of porn in their media).But little did I knew, that the statement that I had made would had turned so true so soon. Things are now going downhill with such ferocity for Japan, that it is totally unreal.
On 11th March 2011, the forces of nature shook Japan with a massive 8.8-9.0 earthquake (depending on who you listens to), ravaged her with towering tsunamis, and then end the insult with an upcoming nuclear disaster involving 6 reactors.
The chains of events that had unfolded so far pretty much set what I had said to my sister in concrete. The Japan that she had visited will never be the same again. Probably by tomorrow, nuclear fallout would be spreading from the doomed power plant. That will send Japan into the Great Depression v2.0 faster than I thought, and with certainty.
By the way, you can kiss goodbye to the Japan holiday idea for a decade or so if the nuclear plant starts releasing nuclear fallout as prophesied.
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