TOKYO At Oribe Seiki Seisakusho, a century-old family-run company in the western Japanese city of Kobe, sales are booming in what until recently was a struggling side business: fallout shelters.
The industrial engineering company began studying shelter technologies in 1962 -- the year of the Cuban missile crisis -- when the Cold War was raging and the possibility that the Soviet or U.S. leader might press the nuclear button seemed very real.
