"(As you may know, Japan has displayed a special sort of organizational paralysis in this crisis, but wouldn’t it be surprising if “toys” like these were used i

"(As you may know, Japan has displayed a special sort of organizational paralysis in this crisis, but wouldn’t it be surprising if “toys” like these were used in an incident managed by Very Serious People anywhere in the world?)" I'm pretty sick of these sorts of comments. I absolutely do NOT know that the Japanese authorities have failed to meet expectations as far as their responsiveness to this disaster. I know it strokes the pleasure center of some people to regurgitate wherever possible stereotypes of hiveminded, hidebounded, unimaginative Japanese, but let's at least wait until some actual evidence emerges of their failure to take initiatve in dealing with 1) the worst earthquake / tsunami they have experienced in modern history 2) the second most catastrophic nuclear disaster ever, in the span of two weeks.