Nuclear Crisis Set Off Fears Over Tokyo, Report Says
In the darkest moments of last year's nuclear accident, Japanese leaders did not know the actual extent of damage at the plant and secretly considered the possibility of evacuating Tokyo, even as they tried to play down the risks in public, an independent investigation into the accident disclosed on Monday.
The investigation by the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation, a new private policy organization, offered one of the most vivid accounts yet of how Japan teetered on the edge of an even larger nuclear crisis than the one that engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A team of 30 university professors, lawyers and journalists spent more than six months on the inquiry into Japan's response to the triple meltdown at the plant, which followed a massive earthquake and tsunami last March 11 that shut down the plant's cooling systems.
The team was granted extraordinary access, in part because of a strong public demand for greater accountability. Its members conducted interviews with more than 300 people including top nuclear regulators and government officials, as well as the prime minister during the crisis, Naoto Kan. The Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation was founded by a respected public intellectual, Yoichi Funabashi, a former editor in chief of the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's biggest dailies.
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he says, looking at the vast panoramic view of Tokyo from his office 
Of course, that doesn't even include regions even closer to the disaster area.
since most of them don't have names, but the larger streets are well marked and have road signs in Japanese and English. Of course, it is a challenge to find specific addresses.
