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the dissident right wing of Japanese politics claims that the nuclear reactors were forced on them by the Americans and were made by American companies according to American regulations (i.e. not earthquake-proof) in the '60s.

They said similar things about privatized airports. The French built an airport and put the generators in the basement as it is usually done in Europe while they're put on the second floor in Japan in order to function even when there's a flooding which is frequent.

The dissident right say this shows that American and European companies are bad and that privatization is bad especially with foreign companies.
The idea that they should be the ones having proper regulations is never ever brought up.

My opinion (coming from ill will, sure) is that they want these foreign things to fail and that's why they let them fail by not informing them.