In July 2012, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission of the Diet published its report. In the English version, its chairman Kurokawa Kiyoshi wrote that this “was a disaster ‘Made in Japan.'” Among the causes, he named “our reflexive obedience; our reluctance to question authority.”
The historian Naoko Shimazu pointed out in the Guardian that the Japanese original contains no such explanation. According to a Japanese blogger who compared the two versions, the Japanese preface blames structures instead, such as one-party rule, seniority pay and lifetime employment.