Today was Children's Day.

The "Golden Week" - it was another holiday,Children's Day,today,and it was a fine,pleasant day. In the morning,I wrote an e-mail to Ilsemarie in Germany. According to her e-mail sent to me the day before yesterday,discussions on the problems of nuclear power generation seem to be going on in many places in Germany.Should we have nuclear power plants as we have now,even after we experienced Tschrnobyl,Three Mile Island,and Fukushima?
Especially,Japan is a land of earthquakes and have been stricken by a lot of big earthquakes. And it is an island country surrounded by seas, so almost every time when a big earthquake occurs, it causes tsunami.There have been at least 13 big earthquakes ever recorded in history which killed more than 5,000 people since the 18th century.Tokyo Electric Company and the people concerned have repeatedly said the disaster this time was "more than expected". But only glancing back at these historical facts,it was quite natural that they should have expected. As for tsunami,they had only 5 m-high protection walls. On July 12th 1993,when tsunami hit Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, it is reported that waves as high as 14m rushed into the island.
Was this time's disaster "more than expected"?