FOCUS: Voters put nuclear energy on back burner despite safety worries

Voters are likely to focus on rising utility bills rather than Japan's future energy policy when they head to the polls in the forthcoming lower house election, with most of the major parties having tweaked their pledges regarding nuclear power generation.The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the main opposition parties say Japan should push ahead with nuclear energy or has to rely on it at least for the time being, revising their policies from the previous House of Representatives election.While the public remains concerned about the safety of reactors more than a decade after the Fukush…READ FULL ARTICLE