A road construction job that would have taken months in America has been finished in less than a week in Japan. The 9.0 magnitude March 11th earthquake demolished a stretch of the Great Kanto Highway in Naka, leaving a 150 meter crater-like crack. Construction workers and engineers arrived at the damaged highway on March 17th, and by March 23rd, it looked like the road never even had a pothole.

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Many workers in Japan returned to their jobs the day after the earthquake and tsunami. Crews from the NEXCO repair company arrived at the damaged highway six days after the disaster and just six days later, the road was open to traffic. The astonishing speed of reconstruction is being used to highlight Japan’s strength and ability to recover. It’s no secret that the nation is home to some of the world’s best engineers, and the repairs at the Great Kanto Highway are certainly proof.

Via Dvice and Daily Mail

Image complied from AP photographs