Red River Nissan

For many of us the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan is a distant memory.   However, the recovery effort in Japan is still very much a current event. It will take months and months before things begin to resume some level of normalcy. One automaker, however, is already taking precautionary measures to guard its employees, products and buildings from potential future earthquake damage: Japan's second-largest automaker, Nissan.

Nissan is, in fact, planning to invest a total of 3 billion yen ($37 million) to reinforce the foundation of its most severely damaged domestic factory. It will also fortify other…