Kevin Maher, a former State Department official, says the U.S. worried about Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s lack of leadership after the earthquake and tsunami led to a nuclear crisis.
Reporting from Seoul—Relations between the United States and Japan, already strained over the delayed relocation of an American military base on Okinawa, received no help this week when a retired U.S. envoy publicly criticized Tokyo’s initial response in March to the nation’s nuclear crisis.
Comments by Kevin Maher, a former director of the State Department‘s Japan Office, shed light on Washington’s mind-set during the early days of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichinuclear power plant.
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