Stunning shots from post-tsunami Japan:
My wife made the point over the weekend that we are all to one degree or another inured to the images coming out of Japan because of our long-term exposure to disaster movies, which I think is right. If you try to imagine never having seen 2012 and its countless antecedents — which isn’t easy to do (although I really wish I hadn’t seen 2012) — the images take on new significance.