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A century of efforts to make Tokyo quake-proof / 33TV7NN
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Tokyo looks nothing like it did in 1923 when the city made up largely of wooden houses was devastated by the 7.9-magnitude Great Kanto Earthquake and around 105,000 people were killed. Thanks to state-of-the art engineering and community preparations, 100 years later the houses and skyscrapers of the Japanese metropolis can take quakes in their stride. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES