People must share Tepco burden

Re: "A victim of Tepco's yakuza-style extortion" (Have Your Say, June 14) by Blues Bowman:

If this letter had been written when the plant was built, fair enough, but we have to consider the situation as it stands now. We cannot revisit the past.

Since the (Fukushima No. 1) plant was built, you chose to live in Japan, a country that has its imperfections, like any other. You knew (or should have known) that nuclear plants were everywhere, and you knew (or should have known) that earthquakes and tsunamis were a risk.