The earthquake and tsunami that battered north-eastern Japan last week have put on display some of the nation’s worst features – and some of its finest.
On the negative side, the natural disaster has brutally exposed the failings of a nuclear power industry that many Japanese have for decades viewed with distrust.
In doing so, it points at the high cost of the technological hubris and faith in construction as a solution to any social or economic problem that was a powerful strand in policymaking even before late prime minister Kakuei Tanaka in the 1970s set government the goal of “remodelling the Japanese archipelago”.
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