we as americans as well as japanese, from this zdisaster. but i urge us to look at it from an all hard. >> harry: adthree particular events rolled together, happening again in the near future because it could be a 1,000 year event, but individually, these or other events we don't even predict, will certainly happen and we need to be prepared for those. thank you. >> this is my honor to speak here with the speakers today and i'm not expert -- but i can talk about public view in japan and also, i was in the -- when we had this disaster. i walked from company to my home for three hours. i couldn't forget the scene so i couldn't forget how much i felt how fear of fukushima -- you guys understand. thank you so much. and also, washington, d.c. has rare earthquake last summer just right after i move to here, so i'm kind of qualified expert of experience emergency. so, today, i will raise three discussion questions to your perception here between the u.s. and japan. plus, why japan stopped all of nuclear power reactor. the answer is because it is ha

it was horrible you had the disaster within a disaster within a zdisaster, but i'm not sure too many other cultures wolf done quite as well even as you did if you had not had those two. but i'd like to hear your opinions on it, then you guys could say what america could learn from that. >> i think the disaster shows how much beautiful traditional we have. and to help each other. and we showed -- weak point to recover to -- so but i think, this is my belief. i think there's responsibility to make -- to go to make peaceful using technology so that i believe this disaster help promote japanese new technology coming soon to help all of country. >> another comment -- would you like to -- >> this is such a complex question. but i can point out that people in the tohoku regions are more traditional and they're very polite and also respectful people in japan. so i think some of you pointed out that there was no panic in terms of people receiving goods and food after the earthquake and tsunami happened. so i think those people in tohoku, their culture and also their characteristic mitigated s