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Rescue operations had been challenging due to the unstable structure of the building.

“We can’t have a stable democracy with an unstable climate, and we can’t have a stable climate unless we have a democracy, And so we have to fight both together.”

It is located on the geologically unstable "Ring of Fire" - so called because of the high number of earthquakes and volcanoes that occur here.

The two-storey building had an unstable foundation and could not support the weight of the construction of two more floors, the disaster mitigation agency said.

It began as an unstable blend of wildly ambitious idealism, great-power cynicism and mind-numbing bureaucracy, and that combination has defined it ever since.