In Japan at large some people feel that the destruction wrought by nature has revived a sense of purpose; some have even taken it as a cue to get married and procreate. During two decades of constipated economics and politics, the deadening sense grew that Japan had lost its appetite for risk, whether entrepreneurial derring-do or even, in the context of a population that had begun to shrink, the risk of picking the wrong mate. But with a disaster on a biblical scale in March, the Japanese bowed to no one. Some fishermen, faced with 40-foot waves, took to their boats and headed straight over them: echoes of Hokusais deliverymen. Granted, that was the best way to save their boats. But how refreshing if it were to reflect a reawakened sense of courage in the country as a whole.

　　总的来说，一些日本人认为，由于自然灾难，活着是为了什么这个问题重新又浮上了人们的心头。有些人甚至将自然灾难看作是结婚生子的一个暗示。二十年来，日本的经济政治陷于萧条状态，本已逐渐消逝的生存目的观念重又抬头，以至于日本人已经不那么热衷冒险了，企业家放弃了蛮勇，人们择偶也不再轻率。但是面对史无前例惨烈的自然灾难，日本人却丝毫没有屈服。面对40英尺高的巨浪，还是有渔民跳上自己的渔船，迎着巨浪而上，与葛饰北斋画笔下的运货人毫无二致。这倒算是保护自己渔船最好的办法了吧。但是若是能唤起日本全民心中的勇气，那该是有多振奋人心啊!

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