In the first week of June, media attention shifted briefly from the Fukushima reactor calamity to skirmishes on the floor of the National Diet, where the government headed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote.
But the Fukushima reactor troubles keep coming back, creating a state of affairs best summed up by an obscure corollary to Murphy's Law that goes, "After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle repeats itself."
While workers and remote-controlled robots were struggling to grapple with the hydra-headed reactor troubles, a separate story went viral on YouTube, where a movie uploaded by a user named "yuunosato" on May 21 had already been viewed more than 1.8 million times as of June 9. Titled "Tokyo Denryoku Fukushima Genpatsu Jiko-go ni Umareta Mimi-Nashi Kousagi," ("Earless Baby Rabbit Born After the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Reactor Accident"), it shows a cute albino bunny at a farm in Namie-cho, a village just outside the 30-km exclusion zone.