Hurricane Katrina: Obfuscation

Naoto Kan Dept: After their triple-whammy disaster one year ago, many Japanese cycled through emotions familiar to Americans after Hurricane Katrina: disbelief at the failure to anticipate such a crisis, anger at official obfuscation as it unfolded, frustration at the slow pace of reconstruction ever since, according to Winnipeg Free Press. But there were also differences between the two countries' reactions and then Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan pauses during a press conference in Tokyo last year, announcing his resignation to the nation. Japan s former prime minister says he feared early in the March nuclear crisis that it might become many times worse than the Chornobyl disaster and threaten the nation s survival. KOJI SASAHARA / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVES The scale of the catastrophe provoked another sentiment Americans will recall: the sense that, after this, nothing will ever be the same. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.