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But when a wife suddenly invites herself to the show, and not demurely behind or next to her husband, but vocally at the opposite end of where he stands, it causes a stir. In particular if she takes on the nuclear power industry.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as part of Abenomics, wants to restore the nuclear power industry to its formerly omnipotent glory and bring its reactors back on line that were shut down after the Fukushima fiasco – regardless of how many people might oppose it. And there are a lot of them, 58% most recently; only 28% were for it. The survey didn’t even include any respondents from Fukushima Prefecture who might have been slightly biased!

He also wants to export Japan’s wonderfully reliable nuclear technology. Turkey already signed a deal in May for a big plant on its Black Sea coast. The United Arab Emirates signed a nuclear cooperation agreement. Negotiations are going on with customers in Asia. When Abe met with French President Hollande in Tokyo, they too talked about nuclear cooperation.

But at a closed-door event organized by a non-profit dedicated to revitalizing regional economies hard-hit by depopulation, his wife, Akie Abe, gave a speech. And a video of the speech has now appeared. “I am opposed to nuclear power, and my heart aches,” she said.

“I feel bad that Japan is trying to sell nuclear power plants overseas because I am anti-nuclear,” she said. Instead, Japan should redirect “part of the money being spent on nuclear power” to renewable energy projects. And the country should focus on selling Japanese-made clean energy technologies abroad, she said.

…….Chairman Yagi went astray. He said that nuclear power provided “cheap” electricity. Alas, TEPCO, the owner of the Fukushima nuke, was bailed out by taxpayers. And containing the nuclear catastrophe still playing out in Fukushima, decommissioning what’s left, and decontaminating the area may well end up costing the taxpayer $1 trillion after many decades of work. Part of the cost of nuclear power.

So Akie Abe had had enough. She described herself as “an opposition party within the family.” Which apparently makes for some interesting pillow talk about Abenomics. It’s not always easy. “When (the prime minister) gains power, it gradually becomes difficult for those around him to tell him what he does not want to be told,” she said, but… ”He had better hear something he does not want to hear.” Maybe she has a sense for money that her husband, who’s fantasizing about the boundless possibilities of printed money, no longer has – or never had…..

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