Some readers' responses to our stories and letters on Japan's nuclear crisis and Debito Arudou's "Letting radiation leak, but never information" (April 5):

Rubbing salt into the wound, foreigners, or "gaijin" ("outside people") — always at least somewhat excluded from Japanese society — are being damned for not going down with the ship.

The passivity and fatalism of Japanese culture has allowed Tepco and politicians to "build nuclear plants on tofu."