My faith in humanity has been somewhat restored by the level of donation made by the british public to the Tsunami Disaster Fund. It was also good to see the UK government making a substantial donation.

Not to detract from that but it concerns me that many governments will spend much more than that on military hardware designed to kill not save.
I read that Japan has a tsunami warning system for it's coastal regions. I hope that, once the necessary emergency assistance has been given, we will continue to assist these coutries by helping them to put in place the same warning systems.