Here are a couple of excerpts, contrasting how certain Japanese traits have facilitated the response to the chaos created along coastlines by the tsunami, but probably exacerbated the conditions leading to the ongoing nuclear emergency at Fukushima (I've adjusted a couple of spellings to conform with Times style): (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Nuclear engineers have a nuclear power supply that is very small that could power something like [Elysium's] exoskeleton for 100 years, but if you ever breach it, you have a serious nuclear emergency. (scientificamerican.com)
This assistance to the Japan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (JSPCA) and the Japan Animal Welfare Society (JAWS) will help provide shelter to the thousands of animals that were displaced by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear emergency affecting the country. (stevedalepetworld.com)