The chief of Japan's most influential business organization blasted the Naoto Kan government for creating confusion by calling for stress tests of nuclear power reactors without coordination.
The chief of Japan's most influential business organization blasted the Naoto Kan government for creating confusion by calling for stress tests of nuclear power reactors without coordination.
"It's so absurd and unbelievable that the government had to announce its standardized view (on stress tests)," Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), told a news conference on July 11.
Part of the standardized view read, "Many people question the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency's safety confirmation for nuclear power plants."
Yonekura was particularly angry at this passage.
"The government created that situation, and it must take responsibility to help people feel safe," Yonekura said, pounding the desk.
Yonekura said European government leaders expressed anxiety about the confusion in Japan's politics after the Great East Japan Earthquake when he led a Keidanren delegation to four European countries last week.
On July 11, Keidanren called for measures to revitalize the Japanese economy, saying the industry could hollow out and jobs could be lost if the situation doesn't change.
Keidanren pressed the government to act fast on simultaneous reforms of taxes and social security, economic and trade agreements and energy policy.