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March 18, 2011 03:28 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HrBEwNOd1pg/crying-tepco-chief-j.html
Crying TEPCO chief joins Cavalcade of Sad Guys
Managing Director Akio Komiri of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the company that manages the more or less totally Fuk-ed Fukushima nuclear plant in northern japan, wept as he left a press conference today. During that press conference, he admitted for what I believe is the first time that the radiation leak was serious enough to kill people. Some will observe this moment as a genuine display of human grief. Others, including some folks in Japan via Twitter, have expressed anger: TEPCO is responsible for the disaster, they've been less than forthcoming as it unfolded, the situation grows more dangerous each day the crisis remains unresolved, and he might save the tears for after they have fixed it. Not my place to judge. But I have added him to the Ultimate Cavalcade of Sad Guys....Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HrBEwNOd1pg/crying-tepco-chief-j.html
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