Reply #10: It will take generations to rebuild Japan -- a new Japan.

[Octafish]

Sorry I can't locate the essay at present, Never Old and In the Way, but a writer in Japan put your thoughts into paper over the last couple of days. He said "it's over" for Japan. The nation will have to be rebuilt and it will take the work of generations. Paraphrasing from memory -- but Fukushima may be a blessing in disguise. Only when starting anew, as Japan after World War II, can something better than the original be created.

PS: I'll post the original if when I find it. Had a serious problem with the computer yesterday. The crash wiped out my graphics card and Balmer knows what else.

PPS: Palast knows, too: It was money.