Japan's PM Abe: "Contaminated Water Problem Will Be Gone by 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo"

He says his administration is "implementing fundamental, radical measures with decisive resolve", and hopes the rhetoric will win the Olympics for Tokyo.

Stereotyped, empty words as Abe seems to use quite often.

From Jiji Tsushin (9/4/2013):

汚染水漏れ「五輪時には解決」＝安倍首相

Contaminated water leak "will have been settled by the Olympics", says Prime Minister Abe

安倍晋三首相は４日午前、東京電力福島第１原発の汚染水漏れ問題に関し、２０２０年夏季五輪の東京開催に影響することはないと、７日にブエノスアイレスで開かれる国際オリンピック委員会（ＩＯＣ）総会で訴える考えを示した。首相官邸で記者団に「政府が前面に出て完全に解決していく。抜本的な措置を断固たる決意で講じており、７年後の２０年には全く問題ないとよく説明したい」と語った。

In the morning of September 4, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe referred to the problem of contaminated water leak at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant and said he planned to make an appeal at The International Olympic Committee (IOC) general meeting in Buenos Aires on September 7 that the problem would not affect the 2020 Summer Olympics hosted in Tokyo. He spoke to the press at the Official Residence and said "I'm planning to explain carefully that the national government will be at the forefront, and will completely solve the problem; the government is implementing the fundamental, radical measures with decisive resolve, and there will be no problem at all [hosting the Olympics in Tokyo] 7 years from now in 2020."

So far, the "fundamental, radical measures" amount to allocating several tens of billions of yen (tens of millions of dollars) - not much at all considering the money they continue to squander in "decontamination" - to give to large general contractors.

It looks to me like the same old, tired method that Japan is famous for.

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