There is a little progress on the aftermath of the earthquake in Japan.
The Daily Yomiuri posted an article yesterday - Foreign governments frustrated with Japan. As you can imagine, people in Tokyo are extreamly stressed about the issue of nuclear station just about 200km north of the capital.
What makes me so frustrated, probably so as the foreign governments is that is that the insufficient information release of Japanese government. It's very conservative and doesn't release the information on time. That causes the needed aid from foreign countries won't be able to go ahead and eventually leading extra cautious reaction of non-Japanese residents.
This is basically contributed to the organisational structure especially common in traditional Japanese organisation such as public sector. In those beaureaucratic organisation, each individual, even a department head or a director are given little responsibility to make a desision. You need to ask many people for approval and it takes days and weeks to make a decision.
Also generally Japanese are encouraged not to make any mistakes. So they are very precautious for making any mistakes. That applied to this nuclear station's recovery operation too. Even in this live or die situation.
We need every effort or help available but the Japanese traditional organisational practice may kill millions of lives.
Jun
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