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English Expression: Reinvent the wheel
If you reinvent the wheel, you spend a lot of time trying to discover or create something already created.
If someone tells you that you are reinventing the wheel, their meaning is that you are wasting time.
Japan has had a lot of natural disasters throughout history and has learned how to deal with them.
Therefore, Japan does not need to reinvent the wheel every time a disaster occurs.
Japanese don’t waste time; they look to the past and build on what they have already learned.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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