3/11 and 9/11: Codes for tragedy
For most Americans, 3/11 has no particular significance. (Hint: it's not that rock band
from Omaha.) Some Europeans associate it with the Madrid train bombings
of March 11, 2004. But, in Japan, 3/11 is universally recognized as
shorthand for the events of March 11, 2011, when a huge offshore
earthquake triggered a tsunami that devastated the country's
northeastern coast and swamped emergency cooling systems at the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
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