The #Fukushima disaster had its roots in the 70s, when the Japanese had to clean black soot out of their noses every day. Things changed when big companies—resurrected zaibatsu—realized that a lot of #money could be made in building nuclear power plants and switching to LNG and oil. The government was throwing money at infrastructure.
In the case of #nuclear-power there were problems— seismic faults all over the place and constant #earthquakes. But the so-called Iron Triangle of government, business and bureaucracy— which has ruled Japan since the late 19th century, despite what some people think, had Japanese law changed to make it okay to build on top of tectonic fault lines.
