The nuclear crisis in Fukushima and some of the Japanese problems

Taking a less optimistic view, it probably seems the like
of it often happens in Japan. Let me say frankly, I think
the problems are the results of the culture of the bureau-
crats and the large corporations and of something like
hamartophobia, which means an irrational fear of error
or failure.

In fact the government's or the power company's responses
from the first didn't pertinently seem to help them to cope
with the situations because they presumably seemed to
avoid making a wrong forecast and didn't seem timely and
appropriately to make a useful forecast with a margin of error.

I don't think it was better to deal with the situations in
accordance with unnecessarily careful consideration when
one crisis followed another although I can provisionally
understand what they feared was the propagation of a
number of mistakes and they didn't actually and officially
announce that SPEEDI, the Japanese computer system
to predict the spread of radioactive particles, was available
and that the data and the prediction were available before
March 22, unlike Deutscher Wetterdienst and so on.

At this stage, it can't be too late to say anything and
I am in a position to request the candid disclosure of
more findings.

Please excuse this scribbled note.