TOKYO ? U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Japan promised Monday to share invaluable lessons of disaster management and nuclear safety that it learned from March's disasters.
"The Japanese government will share invaluable experiences learned from this tragedy with the international community, particularly in area of disaster reduction and preparedness and also strengthening nuclear safety and standards," Ban told reporters after talking with Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Ban earlier visited a shelter in Fukushima to offer support to people forced to evacuate their homes near the tsunami-crippled nuclear plant due to radiation leaks.
Some 80,000 Japanese left their homes when the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant suffered meltdowns, fires and radiation leaks in the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. The March 11 quake and tsunami left 23,000 others dead or missing along Japan's northern coast.
In Fukushima, Ban also met with the prefectural governor and met with a group of high school students affected by the nuclear crisis.
Japan's handling of the nuclear crisis has been hit by allegations that the government had been too friendly with the nuclear industry and tried to secretly manipulate public discussions in favor of nuclear power before the tsunami struck. Kan's government fired three senior nuclear policy officials last week in an apparent move to calm the uproar.
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