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Japan's 3.11 Earthquake, Tsunami, Atomic Meltdown Volume | Issue | Article ID 5588 | Dec 31, 1969 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Japan’s 3.11 Earthquake, Tsunami, Atomic Meltdown within each section. This guide is divided into two parts. 1. Earthquake and Tsunami Damage: introduces work published by The Asia- Consequences for Land, Life, Economy Pacific Journal. introduces major English and Japanese print and online sources on 3.11. • Muto Ruiko, This Will Still Be True Tomorrow: "Fukushima Ain't Got the Time for Olympic Games": Two Texts on Nuclear Disaster and Pandemic I. A Guide to Asia-Pacific Journal Resources • Paul Jobin, The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Civil Actions as a Social Movement • Akihiro Ogawa, As If Nothing Had Occurred: This is a guide to the approximately one Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern hundred articles published by The Asia-Pacific Over Radiation Exposure Journal on the 3.11 earthquake, tsunami, atomic meltdown and their aftermath including • Peter Wynn Kirby, Slow burn: Dirt, Radiation, the debate over Japan’s energy policy, the and Power in Fukushima future of nuclear power, the devastation of the Northeast, plans for resettlement and• Peter Matanle, Joel Littler and Oliver Slay, reconstruction, and the resurgence of social Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate movements. Articles are arranged within the Change: Is Japan's Seawall a New Maginot following categories with the most recent ones Line? first: • Ryan Holmberg et al,Kanto Loam Stories:Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today • Koide Hiroaki and Norma Field,The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Olympics • Katsuya Hirano, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh Kawano, "Save the Town": Insolvable Dilemmas of Fukushima's "Return Policy" Please consult the index on the home page to • Katsuya Hirano, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh search using keywords, place names and Kawano, Reconstruction Disaster: The human topics. The most recent articles are listed first implications of Japan's forced return policy in 1 | | 0 APJ | JF Fukushima Resilience as Structural Reform in Abenomics • Richard Reitan,Ecology and Japanese • David McNeill,Japanese Government History: Reactionary Environmentalism'sSquelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima Troubled Relationship with the Past Meltdown • Arai Takako, Disaster Poetry from Ōfunato • Yasuhito Abe, Safecast or the Production of Collective Intelligence on Radiation Risks after • Aihara Hiroko and Eiichiro Ochiai, Follow Up 3.11 on Thyroid Cancer! Patient Group Voices Opposition to Scaling Down the Fukushima • Shineha Ryuma and Tanaka Mikihito,Mind Prefectural Health Survey the Gap: 3.11 and the Information Vulnerable • Gavan McCormack, Japan: Prime Minister • Kyle Cleveland, Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Abe Shinzo's Agenda Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Uncertainty • Arkadiusz Podniesiński and David McNeill, Fukushima: A Second Chernobyl? • Philip C. Brown, Call it A ’Wash’? Historical Perspectives on Conundrums of Technological • Mark R. Mullins, Neonationalism, Religion, Modernization, Flood Amelioration and and Patriotic Education in Post-disaster Japan Disasters in Modern Japan • David McNeill, False Dawn: The Decline of • David McNeill and Paul Jobin, Japan’s 3.11 Watchdog Journalism in Japan Triple Disaster: Introduction to a Special Issue • Vincenzo Capodici, Shaun Burnie and Richard Minear, Reassessing the 3.11 Disaster and the • Nathan Hopson, Systems of Irresponsibility Future of Nuclear Power in Japan: An Interview and Japan’s Internal Colony with Former Prime Minister Kan Naoto • Oguma Eiji, Nobody Dies in a Ghost Town: • Katsuya Hirano, "We need to recognize this Path Dependence in Japan's 3.11 Disaster and hopeless sight.... To recognize that this horrible Reconstruction crime is what our coutnry is doing to us": Interview with Mutō Ruiko • David McNeill and Justin McCurry,Japan's Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup • Yagasaki Katsuma,Internal Exposure Concealed: The True State of the Fukushima • Andrew DeWit, Can Abenomics Cope With Nuclear Power Plant Accident Environmental Disaster? • Robert Stolz, Nuclear Disasters: A Much • Adam Broinowski, Fukushima: Life and the Greater Event Has Already Taken Place Transnationality of Radioactive Contamination • Andrew DeWit, Japan's "National Resilience" • Andrew DeWit and Chistopher Hobson, Abe and the Legacy of 3-11 at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi • David McNeill and Androniki Christodoulou, Inside Fukushima's Potemkin Village • Andrew DeWit, Fukushima, Fuel Rods, and the Crisis of Divided and Distracted • Andrew De Wit, Disaster Risk Reduction and Governance 2 | | 0 APJ | JF • Jeff Kingston, Abe’s Nuclear Energy Policy Assessment of the Quake, Tsunami and Nuclear and Japan’s Future Meltdown • Andrew DeWit, In the Dark With Tepco: • Roger Pulvers, The Lessons of the 3.11 Fukushima’s Legacy for Nuclear Power Meltdown for Japanese Nuclear Power; Citizenship Vs. a Corporate Culture • Andrew DeWit, Water, Water Everywhere: Incentives and Options at Fukushima Daiichi • Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill, and Beyond Meltdown: On the Front Lines of Japan's 3.11 Disaster • Paul Jobin, The Roadmap for Fukushima Daiichi and the Clean-up Workers • Jeff Kingston,Power Politics: Japan’s Resilient Nuclear Village • Sawada Shoji, Scientists and Research on the Effects of Radiation Exposure: From Hiroshima • Shoko Yoneyama,Life-world: Beyond to Fukushima Fukushima and Minamata • David McNeill, Life and Death Choices: • Iwata Wataru, Nadine Ribault and Thierry Radiation, children, and Japan’s future Ribault, Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima: Science Subverted in the Service of the State • Winifred Bird, Post-Tsunami Japan’s Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete •Masuda Yoshinobu, From "Black Rain" to "Fukushima": The Urgency of Internal • Richard J. Samuels, 3.11: Comparative and Exposure Studies Historical Lessons • Brigitte Steger, "We were all in this together • Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki, Lessons from Fukushima: An Assessment of the ..."" Challenges to and practices of cleanliness Investigations of the Nuclear Disaster in the shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, 2011 • Anders Pape Moller & Timothy A. Mousseau, Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of • Kimura Satoru, Japanese Nuclear Power Nuclear Accidents at Fukushima andGeneration Comes to a Vietnamese Village Chernobyl • Jeff Kingston, Japan's Nuclear Village • Roger Pulvers, Tohoku Has Been Rent Asunder for Future Generations • Aileen MiokoSmith, Post-Fukushima Realities and Japan’s Energy Future • Roger Witherspoon, A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Cat and Mouse • Asia-Pacific Journal Feature, Eco-Model City with a Nuclear Ghost Kitakyushu and Japan's Disposal of Radioactive Tsunami Debris • Roger Witherspoon,Fukushima Rescue Missing Lasting Legacy: Radioactive• Asia-Pacific Journal Feature,The Costs of Contamination of Nearly 70,000 Americans Fukushima • David McNeill, Fukushima - Two Years On • David H. Slater, Nishimura Keiko, and Love Kindstrand, Social Media, Information and • Gavan McCormack,Fukushima: An Political Activism in Japan’s 3.11 Crisis 3 | | 0 APJ | JF • Makiko SEGAWA, After The Media Has Gone: • Koide Hiroaki and Paul Jobin,Nuclear Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11 Irresponsibility: Koide Hiroaki Interviewed by Le Monde • Miguel Quintana, Radiation Decontamination in Fukushima: a critical perspective from the • Hirose Takashi, Farewell to Nuclear Power - ground A Lecture on Fukushima • Paul Jobin, Fukushima One Year On: Nuclear • Satoko Norimatsu and Matthew Penney, workers and citizens at risk Japan Nuclear Safety Agecy: Radioactive Water Leaks to the Ocean 'Zero • Jeff Kingston, Mismanaging Risk and the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis • Hirose Takashi, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami- Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented • Martin J. Frid, Food Safety in Japan: One Year Form of Catastrophe after the Nuclear Disaster • Satoko Oka Norimatsu,Fukushima and • Miguel Quintana, Ocean Contamination in the Okinawa - the "Abandoned People" and Civic Wake of Japan's 3.11 Disaster Empowerment • Brian Victoria, Buddhism and Disasters: From • Fujioka Atsushi, Understanding the Ongoing World War II to Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: A “Two-Headed Dragon” Descends into the Earth’s Biosphere • Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia,Responding to Disaster: Japan’s 3.11 Catastrophe in Historical • Winifred A. Bird and Elizabeth Grossman, Perspective: Special Issue of APJ Chemical Contamination, Cleanup and Longterm Consequences of Japan’s Earthquake • Christopher S. Thompson, Local Perspectives and Tsunami On the Tsunami Disaster: Untold Stories From the Sanriku Coast • Oguma Eiji, The Hidden Face of Disaster: 3.11, the historical structure and Future of • Alyne Elizabeth Delaney, Life After the Great Japan’s Northeast East Japan Earthquake: A Report from One Miyagi Fishing Community • Martin J. Frid,Food Safety: Addressing Radiation in Japan’s Northeast after 3.11 • David McNeill, The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Fight for Compensation • David McNeill, A Young Man Sacrificing his future to shut down Fukushima • David McNeill, Crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster • Lori Dengler and Gregory Smits,The Past Zone Matters: Lessons From History and From Japan’s March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami • Miguel Quintana,Fukushima Crisis Concealed: Japanese government kept worst- • Hirose Takashi and C. Douglas Lummis, The case scenario under wraps Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan – On the danger of a killer earthquake in the • Taira Tomoyuki and Hatoyama Yukio, with a Japanese
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