The desasters of Japan

This topic is not really about Human rights but still I feel the urge to write down what I think about it as it really don't leave my mind.

Japan is known as a country who is known to experience many earthquakes, so it wasn't really a surprise that the quake came, actually it was long expected and the quake itself caused surprisingly less damage even though it was the 5th strongest earthquake since records and the strongest in Japan in 150 years.
The building regulations in Japan are so strong that most buildings did not have much problems with the quake, comparing to New Zealands quake recently which was far away from beeing as strong as the Japanese one but destroyed much more buildings.
Actually it was the Tsunami who caused the severe damage and the dead of thousands of peoples. In only one small coastal town 10000 people are missing, so you might be can immagine that there are much more deads as that was not the only city affected. there are many more along the coast.
But even Japans Tsunami warn system is extremely advanced and they gave a Tsunami warning just 3 minutes after the quake which is really fast but as the Tsunami striked just 15 minutes after the quake it was simply not enough time for most people to get away, its simply not possible.

So now I'm asking myself since days: How can a country as advanced as Japan, with such a strong economy and who got all precautions taken for natural desasters build so many nuclear power plants???
After Three Mile Island and Chernobyl we all should have learned our lesson and know that Nuclear Reactors are extremely danger and that not only local where they are build but worldwide.

When Chernobyl happened I lived in Germany and for years (even until today) radioactivity levels are higher then they should be even though not on a dangerous level anymore

Now as I said Japan is well known for earthquakes and also tsunamis as they are caused by the quakes so how can they build such a Nuclear Power Plant in that region?
How come that there is such an arrogance  that they really believe that never anything is going to happen, that their buildings and security systems are so safe that they can resist everything?

Nature proved us again that it has the upperhand against us humans and that we should not get to self confident in what we can and can't do on this planet.

Lets all hope that they can resolve this situation without causing to much harm even if it doesn't look good at the moment as already radioactivity leaked out and some people are found to have higher radioactivity levels.

To be honest I'm not even sure if the situation is not already worst as they are telling us as history teached us that the authorities tend to downplay what really happend.

So just lets hope the best and we should feel with all the Japanese people