Japan has quite different geology to western europe or USA off their coast where the wind resources are. The only option is floating and that's still very much

Japan has quite different geology to western europe or USA off their coast where the wind resources are. The only option is floating and that's still very much under development. Plus offshore wind isn't that cheap. It's still on the order of $5000/kW of net generation for shallow water, and Japan hasn't had a lot of success breaking $8000/kW as yet. Plus their utility solar market is also a bit borked. There are countless reasons not to build a new nuclear plant, but the costs and risks of using old ones are less than not using them in this case. Especially given that they're also pulling the renewable encouraging levers pretty hard without much success.