Hardships will continue for the people at Sanriku district, the area hit by the great tsunami disaster. I earnestly hope that political measures will be taken swiftly to at least have their basic daily life recover soon enough although inevitably more time is needed for full recoveries.
In addition, we have to deal with the huge nuclear power plant disaster in Fukushima. The whole world is paying attention to us. This issue is not something that will end in a decade or so, but something much huge, that will last for much longer period of time. Since the global trend was to increase the number of nuclear power plants, the attention from the world to Fukushima is accordingly much higher.
Here, I would like to introduce to you my interview (in Japanese) with Tetsuo Saito (in Japanese), Deputy Secretary General of the New Komeito, and former Minister of Environment. This interview includes ideas on the ‘most important things to do’ NOW, so please take a look.
The title of our dialogue is; ‘Overcoming the Crisis and Changing Japan to a Nation Contributing to the World’, its subtitle is; ‘Turning the Nuclear Power Plant Disaster to Lessons to Share with the World’
The sub-sub titles are;
1. Truths of Japan Exposed
2. Fragile Leaders at the Time of Crisis
3. Blueprints of the Recovery
4. Japan in the Global World
In the end appears my recommendations on ‘the most important things to do’ at this time.
I have been expressing my views repeatedly in this web site, so I think you already understand, but below are some examples for your reference (Ref.1 (in Japanese), 2, 3, 4, 5 (in English)).
I have also pointed out that Japan is currently regarded as one of the major risk factors of the world and explained why this is the case.