... if out in the open to gather into the center of an open space to avoid being hit by falling debris.  Many other lessons were learned after the Kobe earthquake. Japan reassessed the building regulations for both residential, offices and transportation infrastructure [The111].  Because of Japans' strict building regulations, skyscrapers sway during a quake, instead of collapsing.  Buildings are now made ... earthquake proof, with deep foundations and huge shock absorbers that dampen seismic energy.  Japan also builds structures that allow the base of a building to move semi-independen...

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... regional diversity is maintained due to its geographic situation, that is, the different islands of Indonesia remain separated and thus contact between people of different regions is difficult. Secondly, the government's transmigration policies also kept the people of different regions separate by developing areas specifically for migrants from a particular region settling down in the new homeland (Wilson 1992:157). Having noted ... Isman 1975; Sadtono 1975). The status of Bahasa Indonesia is unlike that of the status of French as the national language of France or Japanese as the natio...

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... people. The reason behind this is a result of Indonesia's incredible potential, economically speaking. In fact the economic aspect is so promising for investors in Indonesia that the United-States, Japan and numerous Western European countries provided billions of dollars in economic assistance. The promising aspects in Indonesia were a very populous country with a significant amount of important natural resources such as ... the United States has had a fear of Communism people since and during the Cold War. It is this fear, the fear that communism would overtake capitalism that drove t...

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