This essay argues that those who brandish a sense of justice—particularly in anti-nuclear movements—have inflicted real harm on Japan. By contrasting nuclear plant safety with earthquake casualties, it insists that national wealth should be spent on seismic reinforcement, not ideological shutdowns.

Recently, I have encountered one matter after another that has convinced me of the fact that true evil is found in those who brandish a sense of justice.
2016-08-27
Recently, I have encountered, in succession, matters that have convinced me of the fact that true evil lies in wielding a sense of justice.
I have already pointed out that the foolishness of opposing nuclear power is not merely foolish, but can even be said, without exaggeration, to be the result of manipulation by the governments of China and South Korea and by organizations such as the Central Intelligence Agency.
I have also discussed the causes of why Fukushima became “Fukushima.”
As readers know, I was the first in Japan to point out that the prime minister at the time bore major responsibility and blame.
I have written the facts showing that the subsequent complete shutdown of nuclear power plants was carried out by figures such as Naoto Kan, Masayoshi Son, and Mizuho Fukushima.
Now, after the Kumamoto earthquake, I was watching the captions on television.
While thinking this entirely natural, they conveyed the firm fact that there had been absolutely no abnormalities at the nuclear power plants in Kyushu.
That is only to be expected, for nuclear power plants are structures so robust that they would not break even if a fighter jet were to crash into them.
In other words, among all the structures built by humankind on the earth, nuclear power plants are the most robust conceivable.
It is no exaggeration to say that no structures other than nuclear power plants are built with such strength.
After that, news was broadcast reporting that the power supply at thermal power plants in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions had failed.
Thermal power plants cannot even be compared with nuclear power plants in terms of robustness.
In Japan, not a single person has died as a result of nuclear power.
It is an undeniable fact that most people who die in major earthquakes were living in buildings constructed before the 1983 seismic standards.
And it is a fact that the same thing has been repeated again and again.
While brandishing a false sense of justice, and in the folly of not even realizing they are being manipulated by China and South Korea, people have turned against nuclear power, the safest of all structures.
If there is time to spend enormous sums of money forcing decommissioning—that is, squandering vast national wealth.
Then that money should instead be spent on seismic reinforcement, particularly of aging wooden houses and cheaply built steel-frame buildings constructed before 1983.
Or rather than harassing specific nuclear plants with talk of geological layers and the like.
That national wealth should be used to relocate homes built atop active fault lines or with cliffs directly behind them to safe locations.
Why?
Because that alone is the only way to reduce deaths from earthquakes in Japan, a country prone to earthquakes.