Fukushima lays bare Japanese media's ties to top

Is the ongoing crisis surrounding the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant being accurately reported in the Japanese media?

Official lines: Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano on April 17, 2011,
during his first visit to Fukushima after the disasters triggered by
March 11's Great East Japan Earthquake. KYODO PHOTO

No, says independent journalist Shigeo Abe, who claims the authorities, and many journalists, have done a poor job of informing people about nuclear power in Japan both before and during the crisis — and that the clean-up costs are now being massively underestimated and underreported.