Based on a report in Nikkei, this essay examines China’s nuclear expansion, including 26 reactors currently under construction. It exposes how Japan’s anti-nuclear discourse ignores the actual energy strategies of China and South Korea.

There are also twenty-six nuclear power plants currently under construction.
2016-08-27
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Those who subscribe to the Nikkei should have been able, this morning, to learn everything about nuclear power.
The main headline was: China Resumes Construction of New Nuclear Power Plants.
The article was written by Shanghai correspondent Tomoyuki Doi.
…Omitted preceding text. *The following and the boldface within the text are by Akutagawa.
China currently has fifteen nuclear power plants in operation, with a combined generating capacity of 11.91 million kilowatts as of the end of 2011.
There are also twenty-six nuclear power plants under construction.
Details of the medium- to long-term plan through 2020 will be announced later, but according to local newspapers, generating capacity is expected to rise to between 60 and 70 million kilowatts by 2020.
…Omitted.
*Readers should now clearly understand China’s nuclear power situation—something that could not have been known by merely watching Japanese television or reading newspapers until yesterday.
As for South Korea, it is as Akutagawa has already written.
As is well known, Akutagawa cannot align himself with those who simply call for opposition to nuclear power and its immediate shutdown.
It is for this reason that he has continued to state that such arguments would only be acceptable if those making them immediately went to China and South Korea to proclaim, “Nuclear power is evil,” “Nuclear power is the enemy of humanity,” or placed full-page advertisements in the mass media of those countries demanding “opposition to nuclear power” and “the immediate and total shutdown of nuclear power.”