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Beware your heroes and heed the lesson of stargazer Galileo Galilei

Four-decade 'accident': The remains of the No. 3 reactor building smolder at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 15, 2011, after a hydrogen explosion blew it apart. | TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO./AFP-JIJI

Four-decade 'accident': The remains of the No. 3 reactor building smolder at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 15, 2011, after a hydrogen explosion blew it apart. | TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER CO./AFP-JIJI

By Noriko Hama
Special To The Japan Times

Jul 21, 2013

A scene from "The Life of Galilei" seems to encapsulate the dilemma Japan faces as it gropes for new leadership.

"Woe betide a nation without heroes."

"Not so. Woe betide a nation in need of heroes."