In her latest book, MIT Professor Miho Mazereeuw examines successful examples of “anticipatory design” in Japan, where structures and spaces are built with dual uses, for daily living and for when natural disasters or other crises strike.
Yeah, sometimes they are bad, but sometimes they are protector, or kind of in the middle, a metaphor for the forces of nature bigger than life whatever. So it balances out.
Nowhere else has the triple threat of earthquakes, volcanoes and massive kaiju.
Edit: also typhoons and tsunami too
They got nuked too
Gah I was gonna say that.
But aren’t Kaiju just allegories for western destruction a la Fat Boy and Little Man?
Definitely
And firebombs burned down a large swath of populated areas prior to that.
And tsumanis!
Yeah, sometimes they are bad, but sometimes they are protector, or kind of in the middle, a metaphor for the forces of nature bigger than life whatever. So it balances out.
*and being that rich.