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The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World War II and came to dominate the Pacific in the early months of the war. This was a remarkable turnaround for a navy that only began to modernize in 1868. The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, how they were armed, when and where they were deployed, and how effective they were in battle.

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.

Jeder von uns weiß, wie gut ein Spaziergang im Wald tun kann. Aber warum ist das so? Der japanische Forstwissenschaftler und Mediziner Dr. Qing Li hat über 30 Jahre lang die heilsame Kraft des Waldes erforscht und die mittlerweile weltweit beliebte Methode des Shinrin Yoku entwickelt. Ihre Wirksamkeit ist unumstritten: Stress wird reduziert, Herz-Kreislauf-System und Stoffwechsel verbessert, der Blutzucker gesenkt, Depressionen gemildert und das Immunsystem gestärkt. Das Waldbaden bietet so die Möglichkeit, unsere Beziehung zur Natur zu erneuern und Kraft aus ihr zu schöpfen.