Posts by Michael Allan McCrae:

‘Sense of duty’ prevented another Fukushima nuclear disaster

The Mainichi Daily News profiles Yanosuke Hirai, a technocrat in Japan, whose doggedness and sense of personal duty, compelled him to build a breakwater high enough to deflect the March 2011 tsunami and prevented the nucelar power plant at the Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, from being subsumed by the same waters that took out the Fukushima power plant.