Japan hopes to win the world’s trust over Fukushima with hard science, objective facts

Tepco’s risk communicator Kenichi Takahara told visiting reporters that the operator’s lodestar was, indeed, absolute accountability and accuracy. - AP

FUKUSHIMA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Japan wants to win the world’s trust that it is doing the right thing – neither wilfully poisoning the Pacific Ocean nor trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes regarding the safety of its seafood with its treated nuclear wastewater release.

On Sunday, The Straits Times was among the first media outlets – domestic and foreign – to visit the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant since the discharge began three days earlier, in a process that will end with its full decommissioning only in 2051.