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...Tokyo, Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's office wasn't informed for five hours. It wasn't until late afternoon--more than five hours after the disastrous blunder--that local authorities evacuated 160 residents to a community center. There, technicians in gray jump suits scanned bodies with wands to measure radioactive exposure. Chieko Kawano was told she shouldn't use her well water. "It's too late, you know," she replied. Later that evening loudspeakers in Tokaimura and eight nearby towns advised more than 300,000 people to stay inside, close their doors and seal their windows. "When we have more...
...investigation stems from the fact that the accident ? reportedly caused by eight times the normal amount of uranium being added to a chemical mix ? occurred when workers were following a safety manual illegally revised by the company to allow the transfer of nuclear material in buckets. Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi visited the Tokaimura site Wednesday, calling for a "tough and th orough" investigation. His government has been strongly criticized for reacting sluggishly the crisis ? as have the plant's managers, who reportedly spent 45 minutes filling in an accident report form before alerting the public to the radiation emergency...
...Japan's industry has been plagued by accidents, plant shutdowns, leaks and repeated attempts to cover things up," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer. "Although the earlier incidents provoked a major shakeup in the administration of Japan's nuclear regulatory agencies, they still seem to escape adequate scrutiny." Obuchi has plenty of incentive to be perceived as getting tough ? he wants a public whose confidence in nuclear safety has been considerably diminished to accept the building of 20 more nuclear reactors over the next decade...
Inside Japan, business leaders who believe the economy is snapping back propose a kind of pincer movement for national regeneration. According to this theory, the government--led by economics friendly Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi--spends lavishly to stimulate a small amount of economic growth. By putting trillions of yen in the hands of consumers, Obuchi's program saves the economy (to say nothing of his political career) and gets consumers to finally start spending. In time, that growth encourages Japan's out-of-date manufacturing firms to begin a difficult restructuring. The result is a top-down, bottom-up postindustrial...
...Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister, Japan...