Noda admits post-quake failure
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March 4, 2012, Sunday
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JAPAN'S prime minister acknowledged yesterday the government failed in its response to last year's earthquake and tsunami, believing too much in "a myth of safety" about nuclear power.
"We can no longer make the excuse that what was unpredictable and outside our imagination has happened," Yoshihiko Noda said. "Crisis management requires us to imagine what may be outside our imagination."
Noda was speaking ahead of the anniversary of the March 11 disaster that killed nearly 20,000 people in northeastern Japan, and set off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Japan has learned important lessons to be better prepared for tsunami and avoid the power outages that sent several reactors into meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, he said.
The phrase "soteigai," or "outside our imagination," was used repeatedly by Tokyo Electric Power Co, the utility that ran the plant, as the reason for not been prepared for the giant tsunami that hit after the 9.0 magnitude quake.
"We can no longer make the excuse that what was unpredictable and outside our imagination has happened," Yoshihiko Noda said. "Crisis management requires us to imagine what may be outside our imagination."
Noda was speaking ahead of the anniversary of the March 11 disaster that killed nearly 20,000 people in northeastern Japan, and set off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Japan has learned important lessons to be better prepared for tsunami and avoid the power outages that sent several reactors into meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, he said.
The phrase "soteigai," or "outside our imagination," was used repeatedly by Tokyo Electric Power Co, the utility that ran the plant, as the reason for not been prepared for the giant tsunami that hit after the 9.0 magnitude quake.
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