18 March 2015 - fault preservation

Japanese culture values transience, as symbolized by the falling cherry blossoms, and as a result the Japanese never let anything go. That’s how they got the world’s most complicated writing system, with Chinese characters, two separate syllabaries, and occasional words in Roman letters. The unspoken and hard-to-write ideal is that no failing be corrected, the lesson of the Nojima Fault Preservation Museum.