It never ceases to amaze me, how foolish and obtuse the japanese are.

I never understand why people think they are so smart and technologically advanced, the only reason japan is an 'advanced' country is because of great briton and the United States. GE (generous-electric) dumped huge amounts of money and technology into your country after world war 2. We leveled the place and then build it up from scratch, culture included, indeed your island is nothing but an experiment.

You realize that you are simply saving face, this probably is one of the worst disasters ever.

Many babies have already died, many of your children are likely to develop thyroid cancer, this generally takes 5-10 years to become apparent, and will never be reported on in any meaningful way. You simply don't have a clue.

The real problem for japan is that of your 57 nominal operating reactors only 2 are currently online. For the past 50 years or so your industries have enjoyed basically free energy, and now that is over and done with. Your economy is in a dire state and there is no happy path to recovery. We may live to see japan become subservient to china yet.