Kan's defamation suit against Abe over Fukushima crisis thrown out

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Source: Agence-France Presse

A court on Thursday threw out a defamation suit against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe by former Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who complained Abe published false claims about Kan’s handling of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Kan, prime minister at the time of the 2011 disaster, accused Abe of publishing untrue allegations that Kan had ordered plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to stop pouring seawater onto overheating reactors to cool them and prevent a catastrophe.

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In the chaos immediately after the crisis, TEPCO executives—not Kan—told the head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to stop using seawater to cool the overheating reactors.

But former Fukushima plant manager, Masao Yoshida, ignored the order and secretly kept cooling the reactors, widely seen as averting a potential catastrophe.

Abe hailed the court’s decision, calling it “a victory of truth” on his Facebook page.

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Read more: http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/kans-defamation-suit-against-abe-over-fukushima-crisis-thrown-out

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Abe is a neocon - to him, getting away with lies and slander is "a victory for truth".

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1. The salt water is the least of Fukushima Daichi NPP's problems.

Despite the plutonium and Helen Caldicott knows what else still spewing into the air, sea and land AROUND THE PLANET, Abe has successfully managed to protected Nuke Inc as a cash cow for the Owners. What a guy.