At the beginning of this year, a severe tsunami occurred in Japan, and many people fell into the predicament of water and electricity cuts. Many people in Japan spend money on paper cranes and send these handicrafts to the disaster area, which are useless for disaster relief. Yuko Nasu's online post about complaining about sending a thousand paper cranes to the disaster area caused a lot of resonance. She mentioned that for the same amount of money and the same weight, we could have donated tea bags and food to the disaster area.
She also mentioned the disadvantages of sending thousands of paper cranes to the disaster area, such as causing safety hazards to the people in the disaster area. In this regard, the vast majority of netizens agreed. Why do the Japanese send thousands of paper cranes as disaster relief?Every time a disaster occurs, a thousand paper cranes are donated to the disaster area, and it has become a part of traditional Japanese culture. Although the act of folding thousands of paper cranes to send blessings is absolutely politically correct in Japan, it takes up valuable logistics resources.
Obviously useless for disaster relief, why are the Japanese so keen to send thousands of paper cranes to the disaster area?What can we do to help the affected areas more effectively?