The Floodgate Everyone Hated (Until It Saved 3,000 Lives)
In 2011, a tsunami wiped out entire towns along Japan’s coast — but one village survived thanks to a massive floodgate built decades earlier, ridiculed for years as a waste of money. The story of Fudai reveals our deep bias against invisible protection: we only value foresight after the disaster, but the real test of preparation is that it never gets to prove itself.