How Japan Is Building Disaster-Proof Skyscrapers

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With Japan’s susceptibility to severe earthquakes and the growing threat of more powerful storms, engineers and architects have pushed the boundaries of technology and design to create resilient, increasingly disaster-proof buildings.

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  1. Tokyo sky tree's height is 634m from ground. Why is the height decided? Because Tokyo area has been called as Musashi area. And Japanese language is able to read number from sign.
    We Japanese can see the numbers among MU-SA-SHI. Mu means 6, SA means 3, SHI means 4. So the height was decided as 634m high.
    In 2011,3,11 the Tohoku earth quake occurred, and Tokyo Sky Tree was under construction. A crane machine was on top of the tower. It was big shaking but it had not been damaged at all.
    So the Sky tree exists at the place even now.

  2. Damn remember when they said Fukushima Daichi was "Disaster-proof" and that it wouldn't fall for a thousand years? This sounds a little bit like that lmao.

  3. It really is a miserable place to live,… except for cherry blossom season and Fall,.. (and maybe New Year) … (-_-) …

  4. People of ancient korean nations, like Kokorean,,Bakje, made that building and 담징(曇徵: 579~631) who came from Kokorea
    taught how to make paper,etc…to japanese and drew very famous picture on that tem.
    Also The buliding thechnology of earquake-resistant

  5. このビデオのメンターに感謝します!!! ❤
    Todos os meus agradecimentos ao mentor deste vídeo!!! ❤
    All my thanks to the mentor of this video!!! ❤

    すでに私のお気に入りに保存されています
    Já está salvo nos meus favoritos
    It's already saved to my favorites

  6. Note that, in the description of rubber isolator of shin-bashira, the word "Gosou" (互層) means alternation layer, not 5 layers (五層). So the rubber isolator is made by steel plate and rubber in many layer-by-layer, probably more than 5.

  7. Not sure if it was a translation error but steel is not weak in compression, its certainly cheaper to use timber or reinforced concrete as compression members

  8. "Is it too expansive to build a disaster-proof antenna tower ?"

    "Nah, we build a giant shopping mall, aquarium and observation deck to cover the cost"

  9. TFW a South American country has been implementing and creating better and better anti-disaster building technologies for the past 40-50 years but of course it's more interesting when it's about Japan doing it.

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