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IT Industry in Japan - After the Earthquake
- April 25, 2011 5:24 PM
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Life, as said in the previous post, is back to normal in Tokyo. Yet, I find it difficult to avoid reading stories related to the earthquake. I would like to share a few articles I found engaging & encouraging in this post.
1. What a British Native Reporter Saw After the Earthquake.
(I unsuccessfully tried finding an English version of this article.)
In this article, A Tokyo resident British reporter, Martyn Williams talks about the differences in the earthquake coverages between the Japan resident foreign reporters and the foreign reporters flown in to Japan for the earthquake coverage. The latter tried finding ways to make their stories sound more eccentric. Ordinary traffic jams and crowds in the busy parts of Tokyo were tied to the aftershock of the earthquake. One thing I found intriguing in this article was that the reason why some foreign companies evacuated their employees was not because they cared about their employees, but because they feared the lawsuits if anything did happen.
2. How a Sendai Based IT Company Dealt with the Disaster
Cyber Solutions Inc. is based in one of the heavily afflicted city, Sendai. This story tells the recovery of one company told in the chronological order. The company lost power supply, dealt with the continuous aftershocks, and they still made all the deadlines. The Indian president of this company kept his motivated and he plans to stay in the area.