New York Times,s, August 23,
2013: Opposition lawmakers here have demanded that [Prime Minister Shinzo] Abe
stay home and declare a state of emergency. “The nuclear crisis is real and ongoing, yet the government continues
to look the other way,” said Yoshiko Kira of the opposition Japan Communist
Party, which made significant gains in parliamentary elections last month. “The
government should declare a state of emergency right now, and intervene to stop
the outflow of contaminated water,” Ms. Kira said at an anti-nuclear rally
outside Mr. Abe’s office in Tokyo. Mr. Abe remains popular, and it is uncertain
how large a liability the crisis at the Fukushima plant will become for him.
But it has become increasingly clear that the latest problems may be too large
for the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, to
handle. Radio Free Europe, Aug 24, 2013:
Komei Hosokawa, professor of environmental sociology at Kyoto Seika University
in Japan, says that international assistance will be needed to deal with the
mounting issues. “TEPCO hasn’t been
working very [well] to handle the situation, and the Japanese government is
sort of utterly lost,” he says. “The government at the moment is very
reluctant to issue an SOS, but I think we should. It’s really an emergency
going on.” See also: Asahi: Japan officially in “state of nuclear emergency”
still — Clearly shows Fukushima disaster on going — Crisis far from over… gov’t far too late, commitment far too
weak
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Lawmakers urge PM Abe to stay in Japan, declare State of Emergency
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