Five years on, Japan still having Fukushima nightmare
It is not easy to understand just why Japan still insists on remaining nuclear, given the massive wounds inflicted by the events of March 11, 2011
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IF A screenwriter had sat down early on March 11, 2011 with the intention of drafting a scenario for a horror movie, it is doubtful whether they could have imagined anything one half so fearful as the actual events that were to unfold on that fateful day when triple tragedy struck Japan.
The script might have included a major earthquake, although not as fearsome as the Magnitude 9 quake that cut a huge gash in the Pacific Ocean floor off Japan's north-east coast and devastated hundreds of miles of coastline while rocking the rest of the country.
It might also have incorporated a tsunami, though not the 15-metre high Great Wall of water that rushed inland and then out to sea - sweeping away with it towns and villages, cars, trucks, boats and even houses. A cruel sea indeed that took away the lives of some 16,000 people.
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