The world has marveled at the derring-do of rescuers in the wake of southwestern China's killerearthquake and been heartened by the degree of official willingness to let outsiders share in the national grief.
Once again, though, it is the poor who have born the brunt of the disaster, with the biggest killer not the earthquake itself but poorly-constructed houses, our correspondent adds.
Japanese buildings are highly engineered and most withstood the record earthquake - the tsunami it triggered was the bigger killer, our correspondent says.