Japan’s Premier Naoto Kan on Saturday urged calm among people living near a nuclear power plant hit by an explosion and vowed the government would do its best to protect public health.
“By taking firm measures, we will do our best not to have even a single person suffer from health problems,” the centre-left premier said, after tens of thousands of residents were evacuated from around the Fukushima No. 1 plant. “From the bottom of my heart, I would like everybody to listen to the government and to media reports and to act calmly,” he said in a televised press conference on the quake and tsunami calamity.
Tokyo, March 12, 2011 (AFP)
