Crisis man-made: Tepco

given the Japanese tendency to be rather reticent of admitting wrongdoing and failure, I find this quite interesting. It's interesting in the same way that the Prof from Tokyo quitting the government and disgracing the PM yesterday is interesting in the context of Japanese culture.

It's just the very tip of the slow melting iceberg of truth that is going to come out over this nuclear filth spewfest.

So at the moment they're admitting it's "partially" their fault. In a few days, there will be reports of "poor translation and mistakes" and a disavowing of such statements. Following that, there will be two weeks of more or less silence, until they release a statement, referencing a previous admission of total guilt that no one else has seen. Some TEPCO dude will be seen giving the public the same old lame crying sob story that doesn't hold any water.

When are these folks going to be held to civil and/or criminal charges? There must be plenty of ammunition at this point to put a bullet in the festering zombie corpse of TEPCO. I mean, is the report that they didn't even call Kan on the phone and he found out about the start of the disaster from television, true?