Tohoku – a year after tsunami

Lin See-Yan writes about his trip to Japan and evaluates the state of the Japanese people and the economy, among others, one year after the tsunami.

I arrived in Kyoto on the JR-West fast haruka train from Osaka's Kansai on a cold 8 degree morning of March 9 to attend Harvard Alumni Association's gathering of Asia Pacific Club Leaders as President of the Harvard Club of Malaysia, leading a delegation of four. It's been more than 25 years since I was last in Kyoto, Japan's capital in 794 (many residents believe it is still the capital since the Emperor never officially declared that he has taken up residence in Tokyo).