Well you'd be surprised how many have this inferior complex about them despite many not even being old enough to have remembered it..My dad (R.I.P.) was this way and he was born in 1940.
About Japan now though, From what I'm watching on NHK World News it seems they had another big quake and also another explosion at Fukushima plant

and numbers 1,2,and 4 reactors are NOT cooling) Maybe someone from Japan can provide more info here..It seems all the news is recorded reruns..I haven't saw any live world news from Japan since last night..Our media lags behind because they have to get the feed from Japan and then they switch to so many other minor events (like Libya and such) so it is better not to even watch U.S. media if you wanna know about the latest on the Japan disaster..Rather get on U Stream and watch NHK World news as I'm doing now. People comparing this incident to Chernobyl should know this..If these endangered reactors fail and meltdown it will by far outdo Chernobyl, Chernobyl was one big reactor failing..Japan's would be 3 failing..Basically if the worst happens about all they can do is what U.S.S.R. done and that is shut down the bad area permanently..Evacuate all left alive and dump tons of sand over the reactor and plant ruins and cover it all with a 50 foot thick slab of concrete. What makes this so bad is noted so much the threat of a failure (that is bad enough) but the threat multiplied X3..Chernobyl was guessed to be inhabitable for 200 years back in 1986..They now have it contained enough to where you can go there (at your own risk) but they say staying any amount longer than 2 hours could be deadly..So using the Chernobyl disaster to reference the risks here we multiply everything X3 and what you have is basically half if not all of Japan being inhabitable for 600 years

Also fallout would be able to engulf the entire world at that scale of disaster (should it occur) by about 1 week or less..It would basically end life as we know it and I'm not meaning we'd all be killed but I mean your life would drastically change especially when the fallout began it's travel world wide.