I can say from what I have heard, the japanese were just apeing nuclear power operations, construction and maintenance.
They had very little knowledge of why things were done and built the way they were. Instead they relied on watching and doing what everyone else was doing.
IOW they were basically YouTube qualified to run nuclear power plants.. They were highly educated but had zero questioning attitude. a cultural STRONG cultural thing in japan. Y'all's get a warm fuzzy from that?
“They were highly educated but had zero questioning attitude. a cultural STRONG cultural thing in Japan.”
In Indonesia as well. My client called their engineers “automatons”. “If you want the equation for the angle of degree of the mine shaft in rock with a density of ‘d’ they can give it to you right then off the top of their head. However, if they come across a problem in real life while digging the shaft they got no clue!”
Taiwan was similar.