Talking about the Tokai nuclear plant, which improved its tsunami defenses half a year before the 2011 tsunami hit Japan, Yotaro Hatamura, who headed the Cabinet investigation and is one of Japan’s leading crisis experts said in an interview with the U.S. program “Frontline,” that “This shows the difference of what happens when the truly dangerous contingencies are considered and steps (are) taken to prevent them versus a situation in which people say, ‘It’s OK not to do anything.’” writes Jeff Kingston, director of Asian Studies, Temple University Japan in his opinion piece in The Japan Times.
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