In this year’s 2008 FIRST security conference, keynote speaker, Microsoft's George Stathakpolous showed us some statistics which indicated that Japan had the least amount of malware infections in the world by a huge order of magnitude.
In addition Japan is a country that has had to cope with a large amount of natural disasters and yet they are still one of the most feared economies in the world.
For example in 1995, one of the worst known earthquakes known hit Japan and you may be interested to read the 10 year retrospective report on the earthquake from Risk management Solutions Inc.
Losses from the Kobe Earthquake (also known as the Great Hanshin Earthquake) were truly immense.
In all, over 6,400 people were killed and 15,000 injured. Fires consumed 82 hectares (203 acres) of urban land, and more than 400,000 buildings were damaged, of which 100,000 collapsed completely.
