World ignored real disaster in Japan

World ignored the real disaster in Japan
The world placed too much emphasis on the Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan and forgot about the 20,000 Japanese people who died when the earthquake and tsunami struck last year, writes Michael Hanlon. Switzerland and Italy reviewed their nuclear energy programs just weeks after the incident, and Germany even canceled its own program. "Sometimes the media gets it wrong and we all have to hold our hands up here. Twenty thousand-plus people perished in a real disaster, people about whom we in the West have heard very little," Hanlon writes. The Telegraph (London)