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Quake Makes Japan a Temporary Third World

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Mar 23, 2011
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The people of Tokyo, the world's largest and in many ways richest city, are learning how the other half lives, that half of the developing world that is used to brownouts and blackout power shortages, a kind of Baghdad without bombs or bullets.

Unlike the tsunami-devastated northeast coast of Japan, there is no real hardship here but there are many littl…

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