Patience . . . People say the Japanese are born with it.

With the Japanese brain composed of a frontal lobe, a temporal lobe, a parietal lobe and a patience lobe.

This happens when you live forever under the whims of Mother Nature. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Typhoons. Mudslides. Volcanoes. Either you learn to take it. Or you move safely away. Which isn't easy when you live on an island.