"Japan’s confluence of crises can be turned into an opportunity to set “a national agenda’’ that can get widespread public support, said Kiyoaki Aburaki, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “It’s a good chance for Japanese politics to evolve,’’ he said....
Gee, when have we seen that before?
I'm sorry, readers, but this idea that preventable tragedies can be turned into opportunities makes my stomach turn.
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Top finance official is elected as Japan’s new prime minister
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And then I get it in triplicate?
Top finance official is elected as Japan's new prime minister
"New Japan PM targets nuclear power" September 03, 2011|New York Times
TOKYO - Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, promised yesterday to keep Japan on its path of phasing out nuclear power, saying it was “unrealistic’’ to build any reactors in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis or extend those at the end of their life spans.
I'll take that with a grain of salt.
In his first speech to the nation as prime minister, Noda, Japan’s former finance minister and a fiscal conservative, also said Japan would seek to rebuild its tattered finances even as it funds reconstruction following the country’s devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident in March....
But Noda also stressed that reducing Japan’s dependence on nuclear power would be a gradual process and that reactors that have fallen idle over safety fears since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant would be restarted, albeit after stringent checks and gaining the understanding of local communities.
Related: Japanese Never Learn
“To build new reactors is unrealistic, and we will decommission reactors at the end of their life spans,’’ he said. “But it is also impossible to immediately reduce our dependence to zero,’’ he said....
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Also see: 20 killed as typhoon hits western Japan
First a tsunami then a typhoon; think someone is saying ixnay on the uclearnay?
More: Tons of radioactive sewage in Japan is latest crisis
Nuclear expert says Fukushima radiation coming to USA, massive cover-up under way
Already has (and still is), and already is (and continuing).
Next Day Update:
"Typhoon downgraded to tropical storm, but death toll rises to 34 in Japan" by Associated Press / September 6, 2011
LONDON - A British inquiry into the country’s pursuit of terrorism suspects will examine new allegations about cozy ties between UK intelligence officials and Moammar Khadafy’s regime, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.
Security documents discovered after the fall of Tripoli have offered embarrassing examples of the warm relationships that British and American spies had developed with their Libyan counterparts.
The trove of files documents efforts by the CIA and Britain’s overseas intelligence agency MI6 in advising Khadafy’s regime on ending its international isolation....
WTF, Globe?
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