A silver lining of living in a prefecture fractured by faults and full of mountains with a tendency to succumb to gravity during its frequent torrential rains - plus, a volcano - is that the government decides it’s probably not the best place to store nuclear waste.

Map legend: brown - not suitable due to faults blue - not suitable due to erosion light green - cool! Let’s store it here! dark green - even better as it has adequate transportation links!

So everywhere in Kumamoto looks safe except, for some reason, Yatsushiro, which is at the tail end of a major fault that has yet to rupture. Go figure. (Notice that the entire Tokyo region is brown. That’s probably where the guys who made the map live.) - William

https://japantoday.com/category/national/update1-gov't-says-70-of-land-suitable-for-nuclear-waste-disposal