'You try living in Fukushima,' governor tells TEPCO president in verbal dressing-down (JAPAN)

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Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato, left, delivers a harsh rebuke to TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu, center, and Managing Director Toshio Nishizawa at the Fukushima Prefectural Office on June 21. (Mainichi)

FUKUSHIMA -- Prefectural Gov. Yuhei Sato tore into the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, during a visit by the utility chief to apologize for the ongoing nuclear crisis afflicting the prefecture.

"You will understand nothing about what's really going on just by visiting for two or three hours," Sato told TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu and his projected successor Toshio Nishizawa during a meeting in the governor's office in the Fukushima Prefectural Office on June 21. "You try living in Fukushima for 100 days or so."

The pair of TEPCO executives made no reply, only hanging their heads in shame.

The meeting lasted only about 10 minutes, during which Shimizu said, "We have brought distrust upon nuclear power as a whole, and terrible trouble to everyone in society."

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Anger and pain mark evacuation of Fukushima village hit by nuclear crisis

Iitate Mayor Norio Kanno, seated, works at his desk while the village office is packed up around him for its move to the city of Fukushima, on June 21. (Mainichi)

IITATE, Fukushima -- It's June 21, and the village government here is packing up. Remaining proudly independent even during the wave of amalgamations that swallowed so many other small municipalities across the country, it is not a merger with a larger neighbor that has prompted the last frenzy of packing at the village office this day. It is radiation; and not just the village's office but all its some 6,200 residents are being chased from Iitate and its perch on the Abukuma Highlands, just over 35 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

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1. kick

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[AsahinaKimi]

2. This is just too sweet to miss..

Kicking because for once a government official has the pleasure of telling the head of a Corporation his displeasure with the way they have run their operation.

[Sal Minella]

3. "hanging their heads in shame?"

Just because their bad planning destroyed a few thousand lives?

They need to have a chat with the stalwart Wall Street Welfare Queens, and buck up a bit.

/sarcasm