Failed Fukushima Fixes Falling Like Dominoes

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Failed Fukushima Fixes Falling Like Dominoes
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I think you could say the same for a lot of countries. Even the ones that seem to know what they're doing make braindead decisions sometimes.

Japan is almost uniquely bad though. A super aged population and a society that values conformance over anything else results in agonizingly slow and absurd government reactions.

They need 4 committee meetings each morning just to drink tea: one for to pick the teams, one team meeting to pick the tea, and another team meeting to pick the cup. There’s a final meeting at the end to discuss the costs associated with the tea and how to more properly distribute it according to rank and social standing, as one does.

And the sad thing is that this is so much closer to the truth than most people want to believe.