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Shift in public opinion on nuclear energy in Japan
Power shortage, soaring electricity bills make option more appealing, but there are complications
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Japan's sprawling capital has, twice this year, flirted with massive blackouts that were narrowly averted as businesses and residents heeded calls to setsuden - that is, save electricity.
A dire power shortage as well as soaring electricity bills - which have gone up by 30 per cent year on year to average 9,126 yen (S$92.60) per household for next month - have warmed public sentiment to what had been unthinkable since the Fukushima disaster of 2011.
