Tsunami, 8.9 earthquake. Japan.

[FailFTW]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈

hahahahaha-go die now. Mainland pigs.

[xdgr]

^to be fair, there are more people telling them to stfu than the ones bashing jp.

[bulmabriefs144]

What the heck are you talking about? You don't have to build on a fault line for sea access and mountains.

An ideal city has at least three physical Elements to it. 山 (Mountain) for mining rare ores to run the city, for protection from invaders, and in the case of volcanic mountains, possible geothermal energy potential. 水 (Water) for port opportunities, for drinking, for growing crops. 木 (Forests) for the crop land itself, since historically cities developed where there was an abundance of food. In fact, traditionally, before irrigation, cities grew near the water. This much I've gleaned from history and advanced feng shui. AND btw, Tokyo has all these things on its outskirts.

Ideally, all these things should be on the outskirts, since TOO close to a mountain means volcano eruptions, too close to water mean tidal waves, and too close to the forest means wild animals. But as a city grows, it expands, and it's not so much a matter of building there as it is ending up close to there.

Let's put it in mundane terms. The closer to the water, the easier time a marine worker, a fisher, or someone like that has making a living. And consequently the better time forest and garden workers have as the land is fertile. Real estate people also get a good deal, as it offers a view of stuff like sunrises/sunsets, which is a perk for retirees and sentimental people. So there's an actual competion to build closer to the water to get that rare view which is being blocked by the neighbors. Hence, the city expands outward.

As for "building too close to the water" ummm, the entirety of Japan is an archipelago. They couldn't help it if they tried.

[nanop44]

Hong Kong site
the **** is wrong with them

[emailbox]

An ideal city has at least three physical Elements to it. 山 (Mountain) for mining rare ores to run the city, for protection from invaders, and in the case of volcanic mountains, possible geothermal energy potential. 水 (Water) for port opportunities, for drinking, for growing crops. 木 (Forests) for the crop land itself, since historically cities developed where there was an abundance of food. In fact, traditionally, before irrigation, cities grew near the water. This much I've gleaned from history and advanced feng shui. AND btw, Tokyo has all these things on its outskirts.

Ideally, all these things should be on the outskirts, since TOO close to a mountain means volcano eruptions, too close to water mean tidal waves, and too close to the forest means wild animals. But as a city grows, it expands, and it's not so much a matter of building there as it is ending up close to there.

Let's put it in mundane terms. The closer to the water, the easier time a marine worker, a fisher, or someone like that has making a living. And consequently the better time forest and garden workers have as the land is fertile. Real estate people also get a good deal, as it offers a view of stuff like sunrises/sunsets, which is a perk for retirees and sentimental people. So there's an actual competion to build closer to the water to get that rare view which is being blocked by the neighbors. Hence, the city expands outward.

As for "building too close to the water" ummm, the entirety of Japan is an archipelago. They couldn't help it if they tried.

Sigh, tl;dr - Basic Geography 101.
Fault lines = openings into Earth's core = more nutrients coming up = more productive land = better to live in.

Also pretty sure Japanese people originated from the mainland and were chased off due to some reason or another.

[Mesniac]

"Hey I have an idea, how about we densely populate a country which lies along the fault line, and put the capital city right where the three lines intersect."

[emailbox]

Pretty sure Japanese people didn't have seismic technology back in the Feudal Ages.


....Then again, it is Japan we're talking about..

[bulmabriefs144]

Emailbox, you reminded me of Fullmetal Alchemist where the Xing are talking about "dragon pulses," but Ed and Al instead call them "seismic vibrations." Lol, for terminology.

Also pretty sure Japanese people originated from the mainland and were chased off due to some reason or another.

They tell it a bit differently though. (All these children of Izanami and Izanagi are islands, and they claim they always lived there by some kinda divine purpose... Btw, this is background material to anime like Blue Seed, where there's end-of-days rituals to make new land)

Historically, it's believed that the native Japanese were from the Russian mainland (the Ainu had more European, heavy beard look as described in records), and then the Manchurians invaded, and kinda supplanted the culture.

Pretty sure Japanese people didn't have seismic technology back in the Feudal Ages.

Before GPS, people used maps. Before seismic machines, people used a system of bells or something (it's in one of the Chinese tech history books I read as a kid). The shock waves would set off the bells, and they'd know there's a quake.

http://www.answers.com/topic/who-inv...tection-device

[emailbox]

Uhh, pretty sure the Japanese people didn't originate from Russia....
Considering a good chunk of Japanese is similar to Korean and both originated from Chinese, to my knowledge.

>totally off topic.

[bulmabriefs144]

Not the Japanese we know of today. But the Japanese language itself is in the Altaic language family (the Altai mounts are in Russia)... For that matter, so is Korean. It's just been heavily influenced by Chinese cultural invasion, that's all. As has their genetic stock.

Btw, some weird side fact. Koreans apparently don't sweat like the rest of us. It's a cold weather adaptation. Pure-blooded Koreans (not those mixed with westerners) have dry sweat so they don't freeze as easily in cold weather. But yea, all hail the Koreans and Japanese, cause they're superior to us mortal westerners.