A key business leader has lashed out at a government plan to construct an interim storage facility for radioactive waste in Fukushima Prefecture, site of an ongoing nuclear crisis, rather than in Tokyo.
Toshio Seya, a former banker and head of the Fukushima Chamber of Commerce and Industry, asked during a regular news conference on Aug. 30: "Why doesn't the government build (the proposed facility to store radioactive waste) in Tokyo's Odaiba district? After all, the beneficiary of nuclear power is Tokyo."
Seya was clearly caught off-guard by the decision made by the Kan administration in its waning days.
Naoto Kan on Aug. 27, three days before he stepped down as prime minister, unveiled the government policy during a meeting with Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato.
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