Guess who invented nuke power? Hint they are light people
Guess who invented the station the Japanese build? Hint they are light people
Guess who was the engineer who helped the Japanese understand his own native technology? Hint they are light people
If I had said Asian instead of Japanese would you have not preferred that also?
It taught most of us here that the foreign engineer who told Japanese engineers not to rely on auto safety mechanisms but to manually override and sink the rods into the water was the true hero who didn't wear a cape. The Japanese engineers were more trustying on the automatic systems but they built the reactors with back up power at a low level they new a 100 year tsunami could hit it, so they didn't expect the tsunami, they couldn't have expected it.
Yes, which is why Tokyo is the most rad city on earth. The mayor wanted Tokyo to evacuate but it would cause too much panic about Japan and loss of face. So people just breathed.