While the Sasebo incident was being dealt with, a powerful earthquake also erupted in Japan's Mount Fuji region, namely Shizuoka Prefecture. It reached around magnitude eight!
The earthquake came extremely suddenly and violently. Earthquake forecasts had detected absolutely nothing, and it struck directly that very day! There had been no signs of an earthquake whatsoever!
Although Japan's citizens often experienced earthquakes and had been taught from childhood about earthquake awareness and self-rescue measures, this quake came so suddenly that residents near Mount Fuji suffered heavy casualties. Even the Tokyo area sustained devastating losses!
Moreover, this earthquake was not an intermittent shaking—it shook without stopping! If most of the Mount Fuji region had not been affected like this, people might have thought springs had been installed beneath the ground!
The earthquake's suddenness and destructiveness left everyone in Japan trembling with fear!
This was also one reason why the Japanese wanted to enter the mainland! Life on an island nation was not actually all that wonderful! Especially for a country like Japan, with little land, a small territory, and an enormous population. Its citizens generally envied those on the mainland and greatly wished to live there!
This was also why the Japanese had launched wars against China. They had truly harbored the intention of abandoning their islands and landing on the mainland, hoping to conquer it and move their country there!
Even now, the Japanese were still like this! In many places where Africans lived, Japanese figures could be seen, and in many areas, Japanese people and Chinese people fought over everything!
Because there was no way to do so nearby, they could only go to Africa to seek out places to land!
Now, the Japanese had many settlement areas in Africa! All because of their desire to abandon the islands and