Japan Stopped Letting the Ocean Touch the Shore and Here's What Happened Years Later

[@priybuddhakamble]

Hey buddy love your videos Lots of knowledge and information but the video thumbnails are getting a bit wild please change them

[@71gmonet]

A picture of nature finding ways to keep themselves safe when humans are trying to do the same. It is symbolism. But you are correct, I was confused at first until I watched the video. I guess he is trying to be different than the common sensationalism style of thumbnails.

[@justfellover]

Dude your thumbnails are really bad. They make me not want to click on stuff even though most stuff on your channel is pretty interesting.

[@leoxd7029]

I clicked specifically because of the thumbnail. How about an „I think“ in front of your sentence.

[@devonwarmack4726]

And yet… here you are

[@nuzlocke2266]

3.1 million subs say otherwise.

[@DZI10]

Yeah I can agree. Like just show a relevant picture

[@PixelprowessDesigns]

Your problems are pretty interesting too

[@reddog-ex4dx]

You failed to mention that Japan sank. Thus the sea walls ended up just that much lower.

[@stanleytolle416]

One of the problems with sea walls is that a subduction fault pushes up the land on the up side of the fault as strain builds up. When the fault slips during an earthquake this upside land subsidies down. So a ten meter sea wall that subsides 6 meters is really only a 2 meter wall. This is why what seemed like massive seawalls were easily over topped.

[@mewimi]

In some places in Japan May 2011, the water rose up to as high as 130feet, or 40 meters.

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

Were these places below sea level or were there surrounding hills or something preventing the water from going anywhere else?

[@Auziuwu]

that's almost unfathomable

[@DKNguyen3.1415]

@@Auziuwu Well, technically, 130 feet is 21.7 fathoms.

[@mewimi]

@@DKNguyen3.1415 That was one of the main contributing factors.

[@lorettaross2007]

Good morning, Steve! Very good vids, thank you! See you in your next one!

[@waterwitch8902]

I appreciate the way you present videos, please dont change a thing. 😊

[@BingChillin_77]

Basically Japan is on their IRL Attack-on-Titan arc💀

[@DiscoChixify]

It really does look that way.

[@reincarnate3440]

The story was inspired by their self identity post WWII

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[@emanuel8036]

What does the USA China and Japan have in common they’re gonna need a bigger wall😂

[@leslieabner1537]

You know what, I appreciate the videos. Thank you for making me more intelligent.

[@vanpunk]

Nature always wins. Love the channel!

[@dianapennepacker6854]

Nature always wins till it doesn't like the town that did. Better quote is "We underestimate nature". You can absolutely build to resist, and deny it. Just costs a lot in time, money, and effort. We defeat nature on the daily.

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[@UYYProductions]

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We have Top Men working on it. Top Men.

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[@steelokey]

I was in a hotel in Vegas with my pops & it felt like it was wobbling. It was 5:59 my dad explained this shit to me about the buildings he built in Vegas it made me look at construction & human engineering in a whole different way.

[@Eredanavavsnomad]

They should think of a fusion between those 2 ideas, create a movable wall on the ocean level near the coast

[@gonavy1]

This was another interesting video. Thanks

[@jonbaker3728]

They need some art painted on those stark walls. Seems like not allowing building on areas lower than 100 feet would help. It can be a large open park that if flooded, is simple to fix, while the people are safe above 100feet.

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

4:18 That building was not just stronk enough to survive the tsunami, but to support a ship as well.

[@mewimi]

The scary thing is... the water was much much higher than that building also.

[@chell1960]

Here’s an idea for those affected by tsunami. Dig trenches out at sea close to the shore line or perhaps drill really deep holes into the sea bed. Use some kind of material to prevent erosion and maintain it? Might help! Just an idea and use the built sea walls as a second choice anchor them to the sea bottom! Use different sizes to break up the torrent height of these natural disasters. Just ideas!

[@1111reasonz]

I'm here every day learning something new.. I remember the animal vids but this is more riveting

[@EricGoingCrazy]

When I was 10 I thought I was a genius by coming up with the plan to put giant walls from the ground at the press of a button

[@senmage]

I still need to go back to the hotel I stayed in for the Kizuna Project back in 2012. It was on a cliff face and the tsunami had reached all the way to the bottom floor of the hotel. We also helped with some cleanup in what was once a full town, was just rubble and flat land. I'm struggling to remember the actual hotel name and can only remember it being East or North East of Sendai.

[@VnD77]

The first thing i thought of when i saw this thumbnail was a chocolate chip cookie.

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"Why Doesn't Japan Let the Ocean Touch the Shore?"

[@vf12497439]

My home town on the oregon coast had two seperate summer native village sites there. Both on the river with large hills directly behind each village. This way they could run up hill away from the river and bay. Truth be known many of the tribe may have lived up the hills and only spent their days along the water collecting and harvesting.

[@johnmalone5693]

I'm gonna share this one - If you hit the like button right at the start you can just sit back and enjoy that coffee wirthout having to touch the keyboard again...

[@echo123.0]

Thank you

[@voradorhylden3410]

Seems like mother nature telling them to move.

[@AaronWolfenbarger]

There is another option instead of building up you build down you set the sea floor itself to reduce the power to spread it out so to speak but it would be more expensive

[@OublietteTight]

1:11 ... LIKE! Subscribed!

[@RichardGeresGerbil]

Im not Japanese but honestly I think that money would have been better spent on relocation. A sea wall is just a gamble and in my opinion a losing battle.

[@sagarah8217]

The lack of back fill on these walls won’t help against the billion + lbs of pressure a punch from the sea exerts.

[@M335h1]

5:59 when I learned why we build tall buildings in tubs like this my mind was absolutely blown… I also keep to rural areas now… away from things like earthquakes where construction is simple… more like a building… less like a car or carriage…. 😅 places where a lot of stone houses can exist, hell we have a few round ones made of stone, they are adorable and a house fully built into the ground with the face inline with the cliff facing lower terrain all hobbit like except it’s rectangular not round and a little ways up north I know of an earthship that exists for seasonal office use per zoning requirements …. I wonder how earthships would fare earthquakes 🤔/endrant

[@saladestudo-1844]

Your coffee seams too weak :)

[@competitionglen]

If caught in an earthquake, I would probably shit myself before I could access the dunny even if I was in a elevator. Gonna be nasty for anyone trapped with me.

[@Rascalhehe]

stop the face cam stuff no more pls

[@HboskO1982]

Japan preaparing for "Kaiju".

[@JonKorpi-fk7yo]

Japan called land of rising sun should be land of shaking ground

[@chto3ugodno]

Or rising water.

[@justinkemp4019]

Damn havent seen your videos in years, olny recognized y, when y made coffee

[@QuantumJJean]

Now we know... 🌊👀👀 that near the water level can be fatal. and the higher you live the better chance you have. Knowledge, is evolution. We learn.

[@KarrierBag]

I can think of someone who wants a wall like these but couldn't manage it.... he has another chance to try it though.

[@michaelwalker8250]

A wall is a complete waste of money. Shows you just how foolish governments are. All that needs to be done is invest in proper relocation for everyone. Surely no one HAS to live so close to the shore.

[@JonKorpi-fk7yo]

Was this great wall part of of the movie pacific rim

[@jimmccauley9099]

Where are the Jaegers from "Pacific Rim" when you need them?

[@roshanakarya1081]

The first samurai 😂

[@ristube3319]

5:27 Um they know it would be easier to FLY THEM out, right?!

[@alan2here]

Maybe build a grid of pillars out to sea a little way, to break up the wave.

[@ristube3319]

7:52 The 2011 tsunami quake was a 9.0-9.1 You’re saying it like it’s never happened before.

[@Sponsor_Block]

Also keeps the Chinese out

[@emdeejay7432]

What even is that thumbnail? I have no idea what I'm looking at?

[@abbyorourke505]

Damn there are alotta opinionated ppl on here! Just be happy he makes such wonderful vidoes for you to watch!

[@nightdevil6666]

Slurping noises kill me on the inside

[@robboelectronicaus]

Yeah I hate it

[@Hello-pl2qe]

How'd you take such a great close-up of a blackhead removal strip?

[@swenswenthebest]

Dear WATOP my mans please put more effort into your thumbnails I almost skipped this video because of it untill i saw it was you who uploaded it

[@AaronWolfenbarger]

Oh ya the earthquakes would then probably damage or destroy the underwater structures.

[@RePeteAndMe]

Seawalls suck. They're prisonesque. Managed retreat is better. Japan is mountainous. They have infinite rock to use as fill. Used wind turbine blades can be used as well, especially underwater, where they provide the bones for reefs and similar communities.

[@chaikaomoua1169]

Japan could try dropping a bomb in front of the wave or create a wave making machine that creates giant waves and send the waves out towards the ocean. The idea is waves will cancel each other out

[@chto3ugodno]

Nah, tsunami are too big. Moreover, it will damage the ecosystem.

[@bawanthadulara5931]

remembered Attack on titan

[@ericmiddelbos129]

intresting and a funny end. see you next time

[@stevenanderson5272]

Why would they not just fly them to a higher destination what the fuc😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DiscoChixify]

Fly? Like trying to fly thousands of people by helicopter 🚁? Or?

[@kieronparr3403]

Are you dense? Earthquakes don't give you weeks notice

[@johnkim6146]

wow. How can you left out the nuclear reactor meltdown?

[@nhifuu]

Was this similar to the story about the guy everyone hated for spending too much of their budget on the wall? But then 50 years later after his death(?) it actually saved them?

[@NitwitsWorld]

The Philippines

[@SlashyCakes]

guess all their fake gods aren't helping them XD

[@michaelwalker8250]

I bet you're a Christian. The irony.

[@Robbieboy420z]

I cant stand this guys voice ugh...

[@ThatFATbannana]

what is the name of the sound effect that plays at the beggining of the video

[@nunocarneiro464]

No wall can hold the ocean, it would have been cheaper to move most of the towns up the mountain

[@Joe-Dead]

no, it's not cheaper, all the infrastructure would have to move too, roads, rails, electrical, sewage and water BESIDES building all the new homes and businesses. think things through.

[@michaelwalker8250]

No way that huge wall is cheaper. It would work out cheaper to move in the long run. Won't that huge wall need maintenance?

[@Joe-Dead]

@@michaelwalker8250 so will all the infrastructure you would have to MOVE, that includes digging, foundations, concrete, pipes, wiring, you know, everything it takes to make an effing TOWN or CITY. a concrete wall compared to that is PENNIES. take a look at how much infrastructure there is in an average town, then add in the strict building standards in japan to mitigate quakes. noving a town or city is WAY more expensive because you DO have to move everything, not just the freaking houses which some of you seem to think is all that's needed. the roads, the drains, sidewalks, everything would need to be rebuilt because you can't just MOVE it.

[@JcisKingg]

Whats the thumbnail picture?

[@scali84mtry]

Ya don’t live next to the coast problem solved

[@segment932]

Wait! Didn't you say something awesome at the end? Elevators with coffee machines? How about in tall buildings you have a elevator with a pay coffee automate so that you can grab a coffee on the way up. That would bring in a lot of $.

[@jackobrien1739]

Your videos are really informative, but I find them unwatchable w the on camera narrator.

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[@cwilliams1194]

Can't trust someone I cannot see.

[@CJanecalamity]

Hello friend

[@HycinthVixenAlbano]

pls stop the on cam narrator it just bothers me and I would prefer a video or picture ngl I'm sorry.

[@POLAriCE287]

shhh cover your eyes then 😢😢

[@1111reasonz]

Smh did you leave a like lmao

[@HycinthVixenAlbano]

@@1111reasonz ofc

[@jerrygator1132]

Stop complaining so much

[@HycinthVixenAlbano]

@@jerrygator1132 nah its just constructive criticism you snowflake 😆 you act like I said a million complaints i literally only said one 🤣

[@notprovided1131]

6:35 - But it looks ugly

[@Rogue-Mike]

Wow I'm early.

[@SUPREME_KING_]

👍🏻

[@dsanchez9703]

Ok

[@Hiddensecret9]

Japan’s relationship with the ocean is deeply rooted in its culture and history, from fishing to trade and spirituality. The measures taken to manage the ocean’s proximity are practical responses to modern challenges, not a rejection of their cultural ties to the sea. Framing it as a "refusal" ignores this nuanced relationship.

[@sandradavis9309]

Melania wins.

[@arker-n8c]

Your video has been reported for misleading info and covering face like a kidnapper!

[@johnvigh8148]

Give me a whoa....if you are a subscriber!

[@mrbaab5932]

Is Mexico 🇲🇽 paying for this wall? Lol

[@mrbaab5932]

What is hundreds of years from now people confuse this great wall with the great wall of China 🇨🇳, lol.

[@RobertBroek]

😂only gods are the boss not insects😂aqua de vida 🎉

[@Goofyjigga360]

I’m jorkin it….

[@Boomin4u]

Early af

[@roshanakarya1081]

😂😂😂

[@TC_Crownfierce]

Your thumbnail is good

[@noneofyourbeeswax01]

LOL @3:22 - miniature model filmed on a potatocam tries hard to convince us that it's genuine footage of the 2011 Japanese Tsunami... 😆

[@NewAccount-y1w]

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