Before you start calling the Japanese stupid...

... for using nuclear power, which is awfully condescending, when it comes to energy choices, it's not like Japan has a choice. The country is too mountainous for solar, too small for wind (remember, their population is half the size of the US for an area twenty times smaller), and geothermal and tidal power sources are still too underdeveloped. The only other alternative would have been to buy power from China, which is politically not possible.

And before you start criticizing their energy consumption (again, condescending), remember that a Japanese person probably has a lower carbon/energy footprint than you do (despite all the lights used in Akihabara).