As far as the news media goes it’s hard to say why some things get so much attention and others fail to. I would hazard a guess that a lot of world news coverage is generated from US based sources (like CNN) and an industrial site accident in Tokyo just wouldn’t make the cut unless it was a really slow news day. But then I’m not a media expert and I don’t make those calls….

Thanks for the comment and the link.

On that topic, this week people have their eyes focused on another crane falling in New York, but I don’t remember such attention given to a similar incident at a shipbuilding yard in Tokyo last year when 3 workers died.