The Death of Trust

Asahi poll shows that most Japanese people distrust their government (click here to read). 

Fukushima has surfaced back on world media as Japan held the 1st anniversary of the disaster as a nation-wide commemoration of the 1st anniversary of the disaster. Here's an well crafted article, The Death of Trust in the Economist (click here to read) In that article,

Mr. Noda [Prime Minister] says, rather blithely, that “everyone has to share the pain of responsibility” for what happened at Fukushima. Indeed, much of society, excluding an anti-nuclear fringe, happily accepted the “safety myth” that enabled Japan to cram 54 nuclear reactors on one of the world’s most earthquake-prone archipelagos. But if people bought the myth, it was because successive LDP governments, ministries, big-business lobbies, media barons and university professors sold it to them.

Safety Myth. 
That is one side of the double-edged sword in dealing with aftermaths of this triple-disaster. Everyone simply believed that it would be safe. Most evacuees we met on this journey to Fukushima told us how powerless they have felt when this myth shattered a little over a year ago and when TEPCO and the government kept silent and moved slowly.

Censorship.
The other side of the double-edged sword is the deceit and delay of communicating information on radiation. The same article above mentions below:

Possibly the most sensitive source of popular disquiet relates to information on radiation. This was partly held back to avoid causing panic. In some instances that may have been justified—though experts like Tatsuhiko Kodama, head of the Radioisotope Centre at the University of Tokyo, say there was no excuse for the bogus assurances that there was no risk to public health. “What makes me most angry is the censorship,” he says.

The anti-nuclear protests that have been spreading like a brush fire in the whole country carry a lot of anger, bitterness and resentment not simply because of what happened in that devastating disaster, but more importantly because of how the disaster response was handled by the government and authorities.

Nowhere to turn for help, not even to the government elected through democratic processes.  In the eyes of most secular Japanese that's what this one year has been, and how they feel when 'the gods of nature' cruelly punished the humanity. And it is only we humans needed to look after ourselves.

Is that the end of this tragic story one year after the triple-disaster?