A court ruling that nuclear accidents are preventable exposes the collapse of long-standing anti-nuclear arguments and the pseudo-moralism of Japanese media.

This essay examines a court ruling on the nuclear accident and reveals how long-standing anti-nuclear arguments promoted by Japanese media collapsed, exposing their flawed logic and pseudo-moralism.

2017-03-18
On the front page of this morning’s Asahi Shimbun, enormous headline-sized letters declare, “Nuclear Accident ‘Could Have Been Prevented’ Recognized.”
The paper then devotes a total of four pages—pages 2, 33, and 35—to attacking the state and TEPCO.
However, the article, written as if triumphantly proving their own righteousness, shows that Asahi Shimbun is completely unaware that the ruling actually dismantles the very foundation of the anti-nuclear stance for which it has served as a standard-bearer.
In other words, it decisively reveals that they possess nothing more than second-rate intellect.
The nuclear accident could have been prevented.
That is to say, nuclear accidents can be prevented.
This ruling denies the logic long asserted by Asahi Shimbun and figures such as Mizuho Fukushima, who have insisted on absolute opposition on the premise that nuclear accidents cannot be prevented.
Yet they fail to realize that it is also proclaiming just how utterly absurd their logic has been.
After the Fukushima accident, South Korea decided as a nation to construct 17 new reactors, while China decided on several times that number.
China did not stop there, but, while Japan’s nuclear industry and nuclear research have been driven into rapid decline by Naoto Kan, Masayoshi Son, Mizuho Fukushima, and Asahi Shimbun, has established nuclear research departments at more than 50 universities at breakneck speed, gathering outstanding talent and aiming to lead the world in the nuclear field.
These two countries have proven to be correct, and have demonstrated how disastrously misguided and foolish—filled with pseudo-moralism—the actions of the aforementioned four actors have been for the nation.
This essay too is a truth that I have been the first in the world to make known internationally.
Readers of discernment will understand that the correctness of my argument has now been proven by the judiciary itself.