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Volume | Issue | Article ID 5588 | Dec 31, 1969 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus

Japan’s 3.11 Earthquake, Tsunami, Atomic Meltdown

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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

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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

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• 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

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• 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 Archipelago comment by scientists Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress and Arjun Makhijani,Nuclear Energy: • Gregory Smits, Danger in the Lowground: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi Atomic Plant Historical Context for the March 11, 2011

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Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami • Rachel DiNitto, The Fukushima Fiction Film: Gender and the Discourse of Nuclear Containment

2. Nuclear Meltdown: Radiation and its • Katsuya Hirano, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh Consequences for People and Environment Kawano, Reconstruction Disaster: The human in Japan and the World implications of Japan's forced return policy in Fukushima

• Richard Reitan,Ecology and Japanese • Muto Ruiko, This Will Still Be True History: Reactionary Environmentalism's Tomorrow: "Fukushima Ain't Got the Time for Troubled Relationship with the Past Olympic Games": Two Texts on Nuclear Disaster and Pandemic • Aihara Hiroko and Eiichiro Ochiai, Follow Up on Thyroid Cancer! Patient Group Voices • Shaun Burnie, Radiation Disinformation and Opposition to Scaling Down the Fukushima Human Rights Violations at the Heart of Prefectural Health Survey Fukushima and the Olympic Games • Gavan McCormack, Japan: Prime Minister • Akihiro Ogawa, As If Nothing Had Occurred: Abe Shinzo's Agenda Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure • Arkadiusz Podniesiński and David McNeill, • Peter Wynn Kirby, Slow burn: Dirt, Radiation, Fukushima: A Second Chernobyl? and Power in Fukushima • Vincenzo Capodici, Shaun Burnie and Richard • Ryan Holmberg et al,Kanto Loam Minear, Reassessing the 3.11 Disaster and the Stories:Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today Future of Nuclear Power in Japan: An Interview with Former Prime Minister Kan Naoto • Koide Hiroaki and Norma Field,The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo • Katsuya Hirano, "We need to recognize this Olympics hopeless sight.... To recognize that this horrible crime is what our coutnry is doing to us": • Margherita Long,Japan's 3.11 Nuclear Interview with Mutō Ruiko Disaster and the State of Exception: Notes on Kamanaka's Interview and Two Recent Films • Peter Lee, To Hell and Back: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and American Nuclear Denial • Kamanaka Hitomi, Katsuya Hirano, Margherita Long, Akiko Anson,Fukushima, • Yagasaki Katsuma,Internal Exposure Media, Democracy: The Promise ofConcealed: The True State of the Fukushima Documentary Film Nuclear Power Plant Accident

• Noriko Manabe, "It's Our Turn to Be Heard": • Eiichiro Ochiai, The Human Consequences of The Life and Legacy of Rapper-Activist ECD the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (1960-2018) Accidents

• Katsuya Hirano, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh • Cecile Asanuma-Brice, Beyond Reality-or-An Kawano, "Save the Town": Insolvable Dilemmas Ilusory ideal: Pro-Nuclear Japan's Management of Fukushima's "Return Policy" of Migratory Flows in a Nuclear Catastrophy

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• David McNeill,Japanese Government • Andrew DeWit, In the Dark With Tepco: Squelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima Fukushima’s Legacy for Nuclear Power Meltdown • Paul Jobin, The Roadmap for Fukushima • Yasuhito Abe, Safecast or the Production of Daiichi and the Clean-up Workers Collective Intelligence on Radiation Risks after 3.11 • Sawada Shoji, Scientists and Research on the Effects of Radiation Exposure: From Hiroshima • Shineha Ryuma and Tanaka Mikihito,Mind to Fukushima the Gap: 3.11 and the Information Vulnerable • David McNeill, Life and Death Choices: • Christopher S. Thompson, Are You Coming to Radiation, children, and Japan’s future the Matsuri?: Tsunami Recovery and Folk Performance Culture on Iwate’s Rikuchū Coast • Winifred Bird, Post-Tsunami Japan’s Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete • Kyle Cleveland, Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of • elin o'Hara slavick, After Hiroshima Uncertainty • Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki, • Nathan Hopson, Systems of Irresponsibility Lessons from Fukushima: An Assessment of the and Japan’s Internal Colony Investigations of the Nuclear Disaster

• Shoji Masahiko introduced & translated by • P K Sundaram, The Emerging Japan-India Tom Gill, The Rage of Exile: In the Wake of Relationship: Nuclear Anachronism, Militarism Fukushima and Growth Fetish

• Oguma Eiji, Nobody Dies in a Ghost Town: • Sumi Hasegawa and Paul Jobin, An appeal for Path Dependence in Japan's 3.11 Disaster and improving labour conditions of Fukushima Reconstruction Daiichi workers

• Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito,Hard • Roger Pulvers, Tohoku Has Been Rent Times in Fukushima Asunder for Future Generations

• David McNeill and Justin McCurry,Japan's • Anders Pape Moller & Timothy A. Mousseau, Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup Uncomfortable Questions in the Wake of Nuclear Accidents at Fukushima and • Adam Broinowski, Fukushima: Life and the Chernobyl Transnationality of Radioactive Contamination • David McNeill, Fukushima - Two Years On • Andrew DeWit and Chistopher Hobson, Abe at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction • Roger Pulvers, The Lessons of the 3.11 at Fukushima Daiichi Meltdown for Japanese Nuclear Power; Citizenship Vs. a Corporate Culture • Andrew DeWit, Fukushima, Fuel Rods, and the Crisis of Divided and Distracted• Martin Dusinberre, Mr. Abe's Local Legacy Governance and the Future of Nuclear Power in Japan

• Jeff Kingston, Abe’s Nuclear Energy Policy • Gabrielle Hecht, Nuclear Janitors: Contract and Japan’s Future Workers at the Fukushima Reactors and

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Beyond Disaster Japan

• Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill,• Shaun Burnie, Matsumura Akio and Murata Meltdown: On the Front Lines of Japan's 3.11 Mitsuhei, The Highest Risk: Problems of Disaster Radiation at Reactor Unit 4, Fukushima Daiichi

• Shoko Yoneyama,Life-world: Beyond • Miguel Quintana, Radiation Decontamination Fukushima and Minamata in Fukushima: a critical perspective from the ground • Iwata Wataru, Nadine Ribault and Thierry Ribault, Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima: Science • Paul Jobin, Fukushima One Year On: Nuclear Subverted in the Service of the State workers and citizens at risk

• Masuda Yoshinobu, From "Black Rain" to • Jeff Kingston, Mismanaging Risk and the "Fukushima": The Urgency of InternalFukushima Nuclear Crisis Exposure Studies • Miguel Quintana, Radiation Decontamination • Nadine Ribault and Thierry Ribault,The in Fukushima: a critical perspective from the "Bright Future" of Japan's Nuclear Industry ground

• Brigitte Steger, "We were all in this together • Ian Goddard, The Dangers of Low Dose ..."" Challenges to and practices of cleanliness Radiation in the shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, 2011 • Miguel Quintana, Ocean Contamination in the Wake of Japan's 3.11 Disaster • Jeff Kingston, Japan's Nuclear Village • Timothy S. George, Fukushima in Light of • Aileen MiokoSmith, Post-Fukushima Realities Minamata and Japan’s Energy Future • Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia,Responding to • Oguma Eiji with an introduction by David H. Disaster: Japan’s 3.11 Catastrophe in Historical Slater, From a "Dysfunctional Japanese-Style Perspective: Special Issue of APJ Industrialized Society" to an “Ordinary Nation”? • Christopher S. Thompson, Local Perspectives On the Tsunami Disaster: Untold Stories From • Piers Williamson,Plutonium and Japan’s the Sanriku Coast Nuclear Waste Problem: International Scientists Call for an End to Plutonium• Dawn Grimes-MacLellan, Students in the field Reprocessing and Closing the Rokkasho Plant at the site of the Great East Japan Earthquake

• Asia-Pacific Journal Feature, Eco-Model City • Alyne Elizabeth Delaney, Life After the Great Kitakyushu and Japan's Disposal of Radioactive East Japan Earthquake: A Report from One Tsunami Debris Miyagi Fishing Community

• Leo Bosner, Can Japan Respond Better to its • Christopher S. Thompson, The Great East Next Large Disaster? Japan Earthquake One Year on: Reports From The Field • Jennifer Robertson, From Uniqlo to NGOs: The Problematic “Culture of Giving” in Inter- • David McNeill, Crippled Fukushima Nuclear

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Power Plant at One Year: Back in the Disaster • Satoko Oka Norimatsu,Fukushima and Zone Okinawa - the "Abandoned People" and Civic Empowerment • Miguel Quintana,Fukushima Crisis Concealed: Japanese government kept worst- • Anzai Ikuro, An Agenda for Peace Research case scenario under wraps after 3/11

• Matthew Penney, Business as Usual - • Aileen Mioko Smith & Mark Selden, Bringing Controversy Flares Over Japanese Nuclear the Plight of Fukushima Children to the UN, Exports Washington and the World

• Gayle Greene, Science with a Skew: The • APJ Feature, What are the Consequences of Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown? Fukushima Japanese Press Assessments

• Taira Tomoyuki and Hatoyama Yukio, with a • Chris Busby with Mark Selden, Fukushima comment by scientists Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress Children at Risk of Heart Disease and Arjun MakhijaniNuclear Energy: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi Atomic Plant • Hirose Takashi, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami- Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented • Koide Hiroaki and Paul Jobin,Nuclear Form of Catastrophe Irresponsibility: Koide Hiroaki Interviewed by Le Monde • Fujioka Atsushi, Understanding the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: A “Two-Headed • Hirose Takashi, Farewell to Nuclear Power - Dragon” Descends into the Earth’s Biosphere A Lecture on Fukushima • Koide Hiroaki, Japanese Radiation Expert • Satoko Norimatsu and Matthew Penney, Koide on Fukushima Dangers Japan Nuclear Safety Agecy: Radioactive Water Leaks to the Ocean 'Zero • Matthew Penney,Contamination Outside Fukushima • David Slater, Fukushima women against nuclear power: finding a voice from Tohoku • Pio d’Emilia, Dispatches From the No-Go Zone • Satoko Oka Norimatsu,Fukushima and Okinawa - the "Abandoned People" and Civic • Kodama Tatsuhiko,Radiation Effects on Empowerment Health: Protect the Children of Fukushima

•Nicola Liscutin, Indignez-vous! 'Fukushima,' • David McNeill & Jake Adelstein,What New Media and Anti-Nucler Activism in Japan Happened at Fukushima?

• Hirose Takashi, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami- • Koide Hiroaki, with introduction and Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented translation by Sakai Yasuyuki and Norimatsu Form of Catastrophe Satoko, The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition • Sachie MIZOHATA, Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, Democratic Governance and Japan’s • Martin J. Frid,Food Safety: Addressing Fukushima Disaster Radiation in Japan’s Northeast after 3.11

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• Greg Mitchell,From Hiroshima to • Paul Jobin, Dying for TEPCO? Fukushima’s Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Nuclear Contract Workers Uninhabitable Due to Radiation •Gavan McCormack, Hubris Punished: Japan as • APJ Feature, Tokyo Shimbun’s Devastating Nuclear State Critique of Fukushima Compensation Bill • David McNeill, Back from the Brink: A city in • APJ Feature, Japan's Irradiated Beef Scandal ruins looks to the future

• Cara O’Connell,Health and Safety • Adam Lebowitz, Blackout Nippon: Notes from Considerations: Fukushima Nuclear Power 03/2011 Plant Workers at Risk of Heat-Related Illness • David McNeill, Communities Struggle to • Chris Busby interviewed by Norimatsu Satoko Rebuild Shattered Lives on Japan’s Coast and Narusawa Muneo, Fukushima is Worse than Chernobyl – on Global Contamination • F. Dalnoki-Veress and Arjun Makhijani, What Caused the High Cl-38 Radioactivity in the • Matthew Penney,Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1? Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation • Philip J. Cunningham, Japan Quake Shakes TV: The Media Response to Catastrophe • Robert Jacobs, Social Fallout: Marginalization After the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown • Cara O’Connell,Feeling the Heat in Fukushima • Makiko Segawa, Fukushima Residents Seek Answers Amid Mixed Signals From Media, • Matthew Penney,Okinawa’s Fukushima TEPCO and Government. Report from the Connection: Nuclear Workers at Risk Radiation Exclusion Zone • Peter Karamoskos,Fukushima Burning: • Say-Peace Project and Norimatsu Satoko, Anatomy of a Nuclear Disaster Protecting Children Against Radiation: Japanese Citizens Take Radiation Protection • David McNeill, ‘We’ve no idea when we’ll be into Their Own Hands back’

• Sakai Yasuyuki, Japan’s Decline as a Robotics • APJ Feature, Save the Children: Radiation Superpower: Lessons From Fukushima Exposure of Fukushima Students

• Matthew Penney and Mark Selden,What • R. Taggart Murphy, 3/11 and Japan: A Hinge Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing of History? Chernobyl and Fukushima • Matthew Penney, "Science" and "Nature" on • Hirose Takashi and C. Douglas Lummis, The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan – On the danger of a killer earthquake in the • Arjun Makhijani,Fukushima Fallout Japanese Archipelago Monitoring Needed

• Christine L. Marran,Contamination: From • David McNeill, After the Quake: The Town Minamata to Fukushima That Was Washed Away

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• John McGlynn, Japan's Nuclear Crisis: Status • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Bid to Become a of Spent Fuel at Exploded Reactor Buildings World Leader in Renewable Energy Unclear • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Energy Policy Impasse • David McNeill, After the Quake: Journey to Fukushima • John Mathews and Hao Tan,China’s Continuing Renewable Energy Revolution: Global Implications 3. Energy Alternatives: Nuclear Power, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Renewables • Andrew DeWit, How Important is the Tokyo Gubernatorial Election?

• Andrew DeWit, Just Gas? Smart Power and • Justin Chou and John A. Mathews, Taiwan's Koizumi’s Anti-Nuclear Challenge Green Energy Transition Under Way • Andrew DeWit, Can Abenomics Cope With • John A. Mathews, China's Electric Power: Environmental Disaster? Results for first half 2017 demonstrate • Andrew DeWit, "Data Will Change ICT," But continuing green shift Will it Change the Abe Regime? • John A. Mathews and Hao Tan,China's • Andrew DeWit, Water, Water Everywhere: Continuing Green Shift in the Electric Power Incentives and Options at Fukushima Daiichi Sector: Evidence from 2016 data and Beyond • John A. Mathews and Hao Tan, China's New • Andrew DeWit, In the Dark With Tepco: Silk Road: Will it contribute to export of the Fukushima’s Legacy for Nuclear Power black fossil-fuelled economy? • Andrew DeWit, Green Shoot: Abenomics and • Sung-Young Kim and John A. Mathews, the 3rd Arrow Korea's Greening Strategy: The role of smart microgrids • John Mathews and Mei-Chih Hu, Renewable Energy vs. Nuclear Power: Taiwan’s energy • Mei-Chih Hu and John A. Mathews, Taiwan's future in light of Chinese, German and Green Shift -- prospects and challenges Japanese experience since 3.11

• John A. Mathews,China's Continuing • Andrew DeWit, Abenomics Needs a Reboot Renewable Energy Revolution -- latest trends in Rather than Nuclear Restarts electric power generation • John A. Mathews, Mei-Chih Hu, Ching-Yan • Andrew DeWit, Are Asia's Energy Choices Wu, Concentrating Solar Power – China’s New Limited to Coal, Gas or Nuclear? Solar Frontier

• Andrew DeWit, Watching "The Burden: Fossil • P K Sundaram, The Emerging Japan-India Fuel, The Military and National Security" Relationship: Nuclear Anachronism, Militarism and Growth Fetish • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Dangerous Nuclear Waste on the Cutting Board? Towards a • Andrew DeWit, Bloom Energy Japan Versus Renewables Future Abe’s Road: What Energy Future for Japan?

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• Andrew DeWit, An Emerging Fukushima Reprocessing and Closing the Rokkasho Plant Model? • Andrew DeWit,Megasolar Japan: The • Andrew DeWit,Abenomics and Energy Prospects for Green Alternatives to Nuclear Efficiency in Japan Power

• Andrew DeWit,Distributed Power and • Miguel Quintana, What Price Nuclear Zero Incentives in Post-Fukushima Japan for Japan?

• Martin Dusinberre, Mr. Abe's Local Legacy • Andrew DeWit, Will Escalating LNG Imports and the Future of Nuclear Power in Japan Really Ruin Japan?

• Gabrielle Hecht, Nuclear Janitors: Contract • Andrew DeWit,Japan’s Remarkable Workers at the Fukushima Reactors and Renewable Energy Drive—After Fukushima Beyond • Matthew Penney, Japan's Green Energy Push • John Mathews, The Asian Super Grid • Andrew DeWit, Japan, the Pentagon, and the • Andrew DeWit, Japan: Building a Galapagos Future of Renewable Energy: Battle Lines Form of Power? • Matthew Penney, Nuclear Power and Shifts in • Jeff Kingston,Power Politics: Japan’s Japanese Public Opinion Resilient Nuclear Village • Matthew Penney, Business as Usual - • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Energy Policy at a Controversy Flares Over Japanese Nuclear Crssroads: A Renewable Energy Future? Exports

• Kimura Satoru, Japanese Nuclear Power • Augustin Boey, Nuclear Power and China’s Generation Comes to a Vietnamese Village Energy Future: Limited Options

• Shunichi TAKEKAWA,Drawing a Line • Gayle Greene, Science with a Skew: The between Peaceful and MIlitary Uses of Nuclear Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Power: The Japanese Press, 1945-1955 Fukushima

• Jeff Kingston, Japan's Nuclear Village • Nishioka Nobuyuki,Toward a Peaceful Society Without Nuclear Energy: • Aileen Mioko Smith, Post-Fukushima Realities Understanding the Power Structures Behind and Japan’s Energy Future the 3.11 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

• Martin Dusinberre, DIMBY: Kaminoseki and • Taira Tomoyuki and Hatoyama Yukio with the making/breaking of modern Japan Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress and Arjun Makhijani, Nuclear Energy: Nationalize the Fukushima • Andrew DeWit, Japan's New Green Political Daiichi Atomic Plant Innovators Respond to Government Attempts to Restart Nuclear Power Plants • Andrew DeWit,Japan's Nuclear Village Wages War on Renewable Energy and the • Piers Williamson,Plutonium and Japan’s Feed-in Tariff Nuclear Waste Problem: International Scientists Call for an End to Plutonium• Sachie MIZOHATA, Amartya Sen's Capability

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Approach, Democratic Governance and Japan’s Natural Disasters in Germany Fukushima Disaster • Onuki Satoko, Former Fukushima Governor • Peter Lynch and Andrew DeWit,Feed-in Sato Eisaku Blasts METI –TEPCO Alliance: Tariffs the Way Forward for Renewable Energy “Government must accept responsibility for defrauding the people” • Andrew DeWit, Fallout From the Fukushima Shock: Japan’s Emerging Energy Policy • Kaneko Masaru, The Plan to Rebuild Japan: When You Can’t Go Back, You Move Forward. • Joshua Hotaku Roth, Harmonizing Cars and Outline of an Environmental Sound Energy Humans in Japan’s Era of Mass Automobility Policy

• Tomomi Yamaguchi, The Kaminoseki Nuclear • Andrew DeWit, The Earthquake in Japanese Power Plant: Community Conflicts and the Energy Policy Future of Japan’s Rural Periphery • Iida Tetsunari and Andrew DeWit,The • Jeff Kingston, Ousting Kan Naoto: The Politics “Power Elite” and Environmental-Energy Policy of Nuclear Crisis and Renewable Energy in in Japan Japan • Miles Pomper, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, • Hirose Takashi, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami- Stephanie Lieggi, and Lawrence Scheinman, Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented Nuclear Power and Spent Fuel in East Asia: Form of Catastrophe Balancing Energy, Politics and Nonproliferation

• Son Masayoshi & Andrew DeWit, Creating a • Andrew DeWit, Get FIT: Public Policy, the Solar Belt in East Japan: The Energy Future Smart State and the Energy-Environmental Revolution • Fujioka Atsushi, Understanding the Ongoing Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: A “Two-Headed • APJ Feature, A Solar Future? Prospects, Dragon” Descends into the Earth’s Biosphere Problems, and Japan’s Solar Energy Plans

• David McNeill, After Fukushima: Winning the • Andrew DeWit and Bloomberg,Japan's Battle for Hearts and Minds in Britain and Richest Man Challenges Nuclear Future Japan • Leuren Moret, Japan's Deadly Game of • Furukawa Takuya, How Japan’s Low Carbon Nuclear Roulette Society and Nuclear Power Generation Came Hand in Hand. The “Egoism” of TEPCO • APJ Feature, 74% of Japanese Favor Nuclear ”Ecoism” Phase-out

• Peter Bosshard, Will Fukushima Make China • Amory Lovins,Learning From Japan's Reconsider Its Hydropower Boom? Nuclear Disaster

• David McNeill and Nanako Otani, Waiting for • M.V. Ramana, Nuclear Energy and Risk Doomsday: Living next to the ‘world’s most dangerous nuclear power plant’ • Nautilus Institute, Japanese Energy Options After Fukushima • Andrew DeWit and Sven Saaler, Political and Policy Repercussions of Japan’s Nuclear and • Gavan McCormack, Japan's Nuclear Crisis: A

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Wakeup Call for the World Bikini H-bomb tests

• Byung-Ho Chung,North Korea: Beyond 4. Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power Charismatic Politics

• Gregory Kulacki with Steve Rabson, Nuclear Hawks in Tokyo Call for Stronger US Nuclear • Greg Mitchell, New Film Explores U.S. Posture in Japan and Okinawa Suppression of Key Footage from Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Jae-Jung Suh, Kim Jong Un's Move from Nuclearization to Denuclearization? Changes • Andrew DeWit, Is Japan a Climate Leader? and Continuities in North Korea and the Future Synergistic Integration of the 2030 Agenda of Northeast Asia

• Pinar Temocin and Noriyuki Kawano, Citizen • Morton H. Halperin, Peter Hayes, and Leon Advocacy: The Achievements of New Zealand’s V. Sigal, Options for Denuclearising the Korean Peace Activism Peninsula

• Hibiki Yamaguchi, Fumihiko Yoshida and • Ágota Duró, Medical Assistance for Korean Radomir Compel, What role did the atomic Atomic Bomb Survivors in Japan: (Belated) bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japanese Grassroots Collaboration to Secure Soviet entry into the war play in Japan’s the Rights of Former Colonial Victims decision to surrender in the Pacific War? Conversations with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa • Jeremy Kuzmarov,"Hey Hey General Mackymaker, Ho, Ho, Mr. Lovitt:" Woody • Laray Polk, Bikini Atoll Is Not a Beer: Pacific Guthrie's Forgotten Dissent From the Atomic Islanders Speak Out Bomb to the Korean War

• Okuaki Satoru,How Japanese scientists • Richard Falk, Challenging Nuclearism: The confronted the U.S. and Japanese governments Nuclear Ban Treaty Assessed to reveal the effects of Bikini H-bomb tests • Vincenzo Capodici, Shaun Burnie and Richard • Gwyn McClelland, Echoes of the Past on the Minear, Reassessing the 3.11 Disaster and the Atomic Field: Water please! Future of Nuclear Power in Japan: An Interview with Former Prime Minister Kan Naoto • Jeff Kingston,Renewing and Reframing Hiroshima • Peter Lee, To Hell and Back: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and American Nuclear Denial • Mel Gurtov and Mark Selden, The Dangerous New US Consensus on China and the Future of • Richard Falk, If Obama Visits Hiroshima US-China Relations • Katsuya Hirano. Fukushima and the Crisis of • Jae-Jung Suh, From Singapore to Hanoi and Democracy: Interview with Murakami Tatsuya Beyond: How (Not) to Build Peace between the U.S. and North Korea • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Energy policy Impasse

• Okuaki Satoru and Steve Rabson,How • John Mathews and Hao Tan,China’s Japanese scientists confronted the U.S. and Continuing Renewable Energy Revolution: Japanese governments to reveal the effects of Global Implications

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• Andrew DeWit, Just Gas? Smart Power and Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Koizumi’s Anti-Nuclear Challenge Power

• Oguma Eiji, Nobody Dies in a Ghost Town: • Gayle Greene, Science with a Skew: The Path Dependence in Japan's 3.11 Disaster and Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and Reconstruction Fukushima

• Adam Broinowski, Fukushima: Life and the • Fujioka Atsushi, Understanding the Ongoing Transnationality of Radioactive Contamination Nuclear Disaster in Fukushima: A “Two-Headed Dragon” Descends into the Earth’s Biosphere • Sawada Shoji, Scientists and Research on the Effects of Radiation Exposure: From Hiroshima • Vivian Blaxell,Sorrow, History and to Fukushima Catastrophe in Japan After the 3.11 Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown: A • P K Sundaram, The Emerging Japan-India Personal Encounter Relationship: Nuclear Anachronism, Militarism and Growth Fetish • Greg Mitchell,From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area • Andrew DeWit,Abenomics and Energy Uninhabitable Due to Radiation Efficiency in Japan • Kamanaka Hitomi and Norma Field, • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Energy Policy at a Complicity and Victimhood: Director Kamanaka Crssroads: A Renewable Energy Future? Hitomi's Nuclear Warnings

• Antony Froggatt and Joy Tuffield,Chinese • Yuki Tanaka and Peter Kuznick,Japan, the Nuclear Power Development at Home and Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Abroad Nuclear Power”

• Kimura Satoru, Japanese Nuclear Power • Gavan McCormack, Hubris Punished: Japan Generation Comes to a Vietnamese Village as Nuclear State

• Andrew DeWit,Japan’s Remarkable • Yuki Tanaka, The Atomic Bomb and "Peaceful Renewable Energy Drive—After Fukushima Use of Nuclear Energy"

• Shunichi TAKEKAWA,Drawing a Line • APJ Feature, US Nuclear Technology as a between Peaceful and MIlitary Uses of Nuclear Cure for Japanese "Ignorance" Power: The Japanese Press, 1945-1955 • Lawrence W. Wittner, How Japan Learned • Jeff Kingston, Japan's Nuclear Village About "Nuclear Safety": The Politics of Denial

• Hiroshi ONITSUKA,Hooked on Nuclear • Leuren Moret, Japan's Deadly Game of Power: Japanese State-Local Relations and the Nuclear Roulette Vicious Cycle of Nuclear Dependence

• Matthew Penney, Nuclear Nationalism and 5. Government, Corporate and Fukushima International Responses to Earthquake Tsunami and Meltdown • Ran Zwigenberg, "The Coming of a Second Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in

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• Muto Ruiko, This Will Still Be True • David McNeill, False Dawn: The Decline of Tomorrow: "Fukushima Ain't Got the Time for Watchdog Journalism in Japan Olympic Games": Two Texts on Nuclear Disaster and Pandemic • Vincenzo Capodici, Shaun Burnie and Richard Minear, Reassessing the 3.11 Disaster and the • Sonja Petrovic,Tracing Individual Future of Nuclear Power in Japan: An Interview Perceptions of Media Credibility in Post-3.11 with Former Prime Minister Kan Naoto Japan • Katsuya Hirano, "We need to recognize this • Paul Jobin, The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster hopeless sight.... To recognize that this horrible and Civil Actions as a Social Movement crime is what our coutnry is doing to us": Interview with Mutō Ruiko • Shaun Burnie, Radiation Disinformation and Human Rights Violations at the Heart of • Norma Field, Despair Properly, To Find the Fukushima and the Olympic Games Next Step

• David T. Johnson, Hiroshi Fukurai and Mari • Peter Lee, To Hell and Back: Hiroshima, Hirayama, Reflections on the TEPCO Trial: Nagasaki and American Nuclear Denial Prosecution and Acquittal after Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown • Christopher Gerteis and Timothy George, Beyond the Bubble, Beyond Fukushima: • Peter Wynn Kirby, Slow burn: Dirt, Radiation, Reconsidering the History of Postwar Japan and Power in Fukushima • David McNeill,Japanese Government • Peter Matanle, Joel Littler and Oliver Slay, Squelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima Imagining Disasters in the Era of Climate Meltdown Change: Is Japan's Seawall a New Maginot Line? • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Energy policy Impasse

• Aoki Hidekazu and Kawamiya Nobuo,End • John Mathews and Hao Tan,China’s Game for Japan's Construction State - The Continuing Renewable Energy Revolution: Linear (Maglev) Shinakansen and Abenomics Global Implications

• Katsuya Hirano, Yoshihiro Amaya, and Yoh • Yasuhito Abe, Safecast or the Production of Kawano, Reconstruction Disaster: The human Collective Intelligence on Radiation Risks after implications of Japan's forced return policy in 3.11 Fukushima • Shineha Ryuma and Tanaka Mikihito,Mind • Martin Fackler, The Asahi Shimbun's Foiled the Gap: 3.11 and the Information Vulnerable Foray into Watchdog Journalism • Kyle Cleveland, Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The • Gavan McCormack, Japan: Prime Minister Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Abe Shinzo's Agenda Uncertainty

• Arkadiusz Podniesiński and David McNeill, • Andrew DeWit, Spinning the Tokyo Metro Fukushima: A Second Chernobyl? Election

• Mark R. Mullins, Neonationalism, Religion, • Andrew DeWit, How Important is the Tokyo and Patriotic Education in Post-disaster Japan Gubernatorial Election?

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• Nathan Hopson, Systems of Irresponsibility • Asia-Pacific Journal Feature,Local and Japan’s Internal Colony Governments Vs. The Nuclear Village

• Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito,Hard • Thierry Ribault,UN Special Rapporteur Times in Fukushima Anand Grover on Fukushima: A Stunning Report Brushed Aside by the Japanese • David McNeill and Justin McCurry,Japan's Government Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup • Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki, • Andrew DeWit, Can Abenomics Cope With Lessons from Fukushima: An Assessment of the Environmental Disaster? Investigations of the Nuclear Disaster

• Andrew DeWit, "Data Will Change ICT," But • P K Sundaram, The Emerging Japan-India Will it Change the Abe Regime? Relationship: Nuclear Anachronism, Militarism and Growth Fetish • Adam Broinowski, Fukushima: Life and the Transnationality of Radioactive Contamination • Roger Witherspoon, A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Cat and Mouse • Andrew DeWit and Chistopher Hobson, Abe with a Nuclear Ghost at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi • Roger Witherspoon,Fukushima Rescue Missing Lasting Legacy: Radioactive • Andrew DeWit, Fukushima, Fuel Rods, and Contamination of Nearly 70,000 Americans the Crisis of Divided and Distracted • Andrew DeWit, Japan: Building a Galapagos Governance of Power? • Jeff Kingston, Abe’s Nuclear Energy Policy • Iida Tetsunari, What is Required for a New and Japan’s Future Society and Politics: The Potential of Japanese Civil Society • Paul Jobin, The Roadmap for Fukushima Daiichi and the Clean-up Workers •Jeff Kingston, Power Politics: Japan’s Resilient Nuclear Village • Andrew DeWit, Abe and Pro-Active Pacifism in the Face of Climate Change • Shoko Yoneyama,Life-world: Beyond Fukushima and Minamata • John Mathews and Mei-Chih Hu, Renewable Energy vs. Nuclear Power: Taiwan’s energy • Iwata Wataru, Nadine Ribault and Thierry future in light of Chinese, German andRibault, Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima: Science Japanese experience since 3.11 Subverted in the Service of the State

• Andrew DeWit, Abenomics Needs a Reboot • Masuda Yoshinobu, From "Black Rain" to Rather than Nuclear Restarts "Fukushima": The Urgency of Internal Exposure Studies • Winifred Bird, Post-Tsunami Japan’s Push To Rebuild Coast in Concrete • Nadine Ribault and Thierry Ribault,The "Bright Future" of Japan's Nuclear Industry • Richard J. Samuels, 3.11: Comparative and Historical Lessons • Brigitte Steger, "We were all in this together

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..."" Challenges to and practices of cleanliness • Brian Victoria, Buddhism and Disasters: From in the shelters in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, World War II to Fukushima 2011 • Timothy S. George, Fukushima in Light of • Andrew DeWit, Japan's Energy Policy at a Minamata Crssroads: A Renewable Energy Future? • Matthew Penney, Nuclear Nationalism and • Antony Froggatt and Joy Tuffield,Chinese Fukushima Nuclear Power Development at Home and Abroad • David McNeill, The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Fight for Compensation • Kimura Satoru, Japanese Nuclear Power Generation Comes to a Vietnamese Village • Dawn Grimes-MacLellan, Students in the field at the site of the Great East Japan Earthquake • Aileen MiokoSmith, Post-Fukushima Realities and Japan’s Energy Future • Alyne Elizabeth Delaney, Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake: A Report from One • Jeff Kingston, Japan's Nuclear Village Miyagi Fishing Community

• Andrew DeWit, Japan's New Green Political • Christopher S. Thompson, The Great East Innovators Respond to Government Attempts to Japan Earthquake One Year on: Reports From Restart Nuclear Power Plants The Field

• Asia-Pacific Journal Feature, Eco-Model City • Miguel Quintana,Fukushima Crisis Kitakyushu and Japan's Disposal of Radioactive Concealed: Japanese government kept worst- Tsunami Debris case scenario under wraps

• Mainichi Shimbun, The Black Box of Japan's • Matthew Penney, Business as Usual - Nuclear Power Controversy Flares Over Japanese Nuclear Exports • David H. Slater, Nishimura Keiko, and Love Kindstrand, Social Media, Information and • Augustin Boey, Nuclear Power and China’s Political Activism in Japan’s 3.11 Crisis Energy Future: Limited Options

• Leo Bosner, Can Japan Respond Better to its • Ran Zwigenberg, "The Coming of a Second Next Large Disaster? Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear • Andrew DeWit,Megasolar Japan: The Power Prospects for Green Alternatives to Nuclear Power • Andrew DeWit,Megasolar Japan: The Prospects for Green Alternatives to Nuclear • Jeff Kingston, Mismanaging Risk and the Power Fukushima Nuclear Crisis • Hiroshi ONITSUKA,Hooked on Nuclear • Andrew DeWit,Japan’s Remarkable Power: Japanese State-Local Relations and the Renewable Energy Drive—After Fukushima Vicious Cycle of Nuclear Dependence

• Miguel Quintana, Ocean Contamination in the • Gayle Greene, Science with a Skew: The Wake of Japan's 3.11 Disaster Nuclear Power Industry After Chernobyl and

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Fukushima • Cara O’Connell,Health and Safety Considerations: Fukushima Nuclear Power • Taira Tomoyuki and Hatoyama Yukio with Plant Workers at Risk of Heat-Related Illness Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress and Arjun Makhijani, Nuclear Energy: Nationalize the Fukushima • Andrew DeWit and Sven Saaler, Political and Daiichi Atomic Plant Policy Repercussions of Japan’s Nuclear and Natural Disasters in Germany • Taira Tomoyuki and Hatoyama Yukio, with a comment by scientists Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress • Onuki Satoko, Former Fukushima Governor and Arjun Makhijani,Nuclear Energy: Sato Eisaku Blasts METI –TEPCO Alliance: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi Atomic Plant “Government must accept responsibility for defrauding the people” • Hirose Takashi, Farewell to Nuclear Power - A Lecture on Fukushima • APJ Feature, Protests: The 20 Millisievert Decision and the Future of Atomic Energy in • Hirose Takashi, Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami- Japan Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented Form of Catastrophe • APJ Feature, 20 Millisieverts for Children and Kosako Toshiso’s Resignation • Andrew DeWit, Fallout From the Fukushima Shock: Japan’s Emerging Energy Policy • David McNeill, Japan’s government faces looming crisis over ‘whack-a-mole’ nuclear • Aileen Mioko Smith and Mark Selden, policies Bringing the Plight of Fukushima Children to the UN, Washington and the World • APJ Feature, Save the Children: Radiation Exposure of Fukushima Students • Tomomi Yamaguchi, The Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant: Community Conflicts and the • APJ Feature, TEPCO, Credibility, and the Future of Japan’s Rural Periphery Japanese Crisis • Jeff Kingston, Ousting Kan Naoto: The Politics of Nuclear Crisis and Renewable Energy in 6. Citizen, NGO and International Japan Responses to Earthquake Tsunami and • Son Masayoshi & Andrew DeWit, Creating a Meltdown Solar Belt in East Japan: The Energy Future

• Kodama Tatsuhiko,Radiation Effects on Health: Protect the Children of Fukushima • Muto Ruiko, This Will Still Be True Tomorrow: "Fukushima Ain't Got the Time for • Greg Mitchell,From Hiroshima to Olympic Games": Two Texts on Nuclear Fukushima: Japan Set to Declare Wide Area Disaster and Pandemic Uninhabitable Due to Radiation • Sonja Petrovic,Tracing Individual • APJ Feature, US Nuclear Technology as a Perceptions of Media Credibility in Post-3.11 Cure for Japanese Ignorance? Japan

• David McNeill, A Young Man Sacrificing his • Paul Jobin, The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster future to shut down Fukushima and Civil Actions as a Social Movement

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• Akihiro Ogawa, As If Nothing Had Occurred: Meltdown Anti-Tokyo Olympics Protests and Concern Over Radiation Exposure • Yasuhito Abe, Safecast or the Production of Collective Intelligence on Radiation Risks after • Ryan Holmberg et al,Kanto Loam 3.11 Stories:Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today • Kyle Cleveland, Mobilizing Nuclear Bias: The • Koide Hiroaki and Norma Field,The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Politics of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and the Tokyo Uncertainty Olympics • Christopher S. Thompson, Are You Coming to • Margherita Long,Japan's 3.11 Nuclear the Matsuri?: Tsunami Recovery and Folk Disaster and the State of Exception: Notes on Performance Culture on Iwate’s Rikuchū Coast Kamanaka's Interview and Two Recent Films •Andrew DeWit, Spinning the Tokyo Metro • Kamanaka Hitomi, Katsuya Hirano,Election < Margherita Long, Akiko Anson,Fukushima, Media, Democracy: The Promise of•Sven Saaler, Could Hosokawa Morihiro’s Documentary Film political comeback restore sanity to Japanese politics? • Noriko Manabe, "It's Our Turn to Be Heard": The Life and Legacy of Rapper-Activist ECD • Shoji Masahiko introduced & translated by (1960-2018) Tom Gill, The Rage of Exile: In the Wake of Fukushima • Arkadiusz Podniesiński and David McNeill, Fukushima: A Second Chernobyl? • Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito,Hard Times in Fukushima • Katsuya Hirano, "We need to recognize this hopeless sight.... To recognize that this horrible • David McNeill and Justin McCurry,Japan's crime is what our coutnry is doing to us": Cut-Price Nuclear Cleanup Interview with Mutō Ruiko • Andrew DeWit, Data Will Change ICT, But • Norma Field, Despair Properly, To Find the Will it Change the Abe Regime? Next Step • Adam Broinowski, Fukushima: Life and the • Oguma Eiji, A New Wave Against the Rock: Transnationality of Radioactive Contamination New social movements in Japan since the Fukushima nuclear meltdown • Andrew DeWit and Chistopher Hobson, Abe at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction • Shuge Wei, Recovery from "Betrayal": Local at Fukushima Daiichi Anti-Nuclear Movements and Party Politics in Taiwan • Andrew DeWit, Water, Water Everywhere: Incentives and Options at Fukushima Daiichi • Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai,"The and Beyond Fukushima Nuclear Disaster is a Serious Crime": Interview with Koide Hiroaki • Paul Jobin, The Roadmap for Fukushima Daiichi and the Clean-up Workers • David McNeill,Japanese Government Squelching Efforts to Measure Fukushima • Sawada Shoji, Scientists and Research on the

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Effects of Radiation Exposure: From Hiroshima • Asia-Pacific Journal Feature,Reporters to Fukushima Without Borders on Discrimination Against Freelance Journalists in Japan • Kerstin Lukner and Alexandra Sakaki, Lessons from Fukushima: An Assessment of the • Asia-Pacific Journal Feature, Eco-Model City Investigations of the Nuclear Disaster Kitakyushu and Japan's Disposal of Radioactive Tsunami Debris • Sumi Hasegawa and Paul Jobin, An appeal for improving labour conditions of Fukushima • Makiko SEGAWA, After The Media Has Gone: Daiichi workers Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11

Andrew DeWit, Distributed Power and • Yuki Tanaka, A Lesson from the Fukushima Incentives in Post-Fukushima Japan Nuclear Accident

• Margaret Mehl,A Personal View of • Jennifer Robertson, From Uniqlo to NGOs: Volunteering in Iwate After 3. 11: In Whose The Problematic “Culture of Giving” in Inter- Service? Disaster Japan

• Iida Tetsunari, What is Required for a New • Iwata Wataru interviewed by Nadine and Society and Politics: The Potential of Japanese Thierry Ribault, Fukushima: “Everything has to Civil Society be done again for us to stay in the contaminated areas” • Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill, Meltdown: On the Front Lines of Japan's 3.11 • Koide Hiroaki,Japan's Nightmare Fight Disaster Against Radiation in the Wake of the 3.11 Meltdown • Jeff Kingston,Power Politics: Japan’s Resilient Nuclear Village • Jeff Kingston, Mismanaging Risk and the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis • Aileen MiokoSmith, Post-Fukushima Realities and Japan’s Energy Future • Miguel Quintana, Radiation Decontamination in Fukushima: a critical perspective from the • Oguma Eiji with an introduction by David H. ground Slater, From a "Dysfunctional Japanese-Style Industrialized Society" to an “Ordinary• Andrew DeWit,Japan’s Remarkable Nation”? Renewable Energy Drive—After Fukushima

• Chim↑Pom with an introduction by Linda • Maeda Arata and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Hoaglund, The Suddenly Relevant Activist Amid Invisible Terror: The Righteous Anger of Antics of Artist Collective Chim↑Pom:A Fukushima Farmer Poet Challenging Japan’s Nuclear Power Agenda • Timothy S. George, Fukushima in Light of • Noriko Manabe, The No Nukes 2012 Concert Minamata and the Role of Musicians in the Anti-Nuclear Movement • David McNeill, The Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and the Fight for Compensation • Piers Williamson, Largest Demonstrations in Half a Century Protest the Restart of Japanese • Christopher S. Thompson, Local Perspectives Nuclear Power Plants On the Tsunami Disaster: Untold Stories From

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Longterm Consequences of Japan’s Earthquake Japan and Tsunami • Ryan Holmberg et al,Kanto Loam • Kodama Tatsuhiko,Radiation Effects on Stories:Looking for 3.11 in Tokyo Today Health: Protect the Children of Fukushima • Barbara Geilhorn, A Multifaceted Fukushima- • Koide Hiroaki, with introduction and-Trauma and Memory in Ōnobu Pelican's translation by Sakai Yasuyuki and Norimatsu Kiruannya and U-ko Satoko, The Truth About Nuclear Power: Japanese Nuclear Engineer Calls for Abolition • Margherita Long,Japan's 3.11 Nuclear Disaster and the State of Exception: Notes on • Martin J. Frid,Food Safety: Addressing Kamanaka's Interview and Two Recent Films Radiation in Japan’s Northeast after 3.11 • Kamanaka Hitomi, Katsuya Hirano, • Say-Peace Project and Norimatsu Satoko, Margherita Long, Akiko Anson,Fukushima, Protecting Children Against Radiation: Media, Democracy: The Promise of Japanese Citizens Take Radiation Protection Documentary Film into Their Own Hands • Noriko Manabe, "It's Our Turn to Be Heard": • David McNeill, Communities Struggle to The Life and Legacy of Rapper-Activist ECD Rebuild Shattered Lives on Japan’s Coast (1960-2018) • Matthew Penney, The Voices of Ten Million: • Rachel DiNitto, The Fukushima Fiction Film: Anti-Nuclear Petition Movement Launched in Gender and the Discourse of Nuclear Japan Containment • APJ Feature,Alternatives to the IAEA: Greenpeace and Japanese Municipalities• Arai Takako, Disaster Poetry from Ōfunato Measure Radiation • Martin Fackler, The Asahi Shimbun's Foiled • Ban Ki-moon,Ban Ki-moon's Visit to Foray into Watchdog Journalism Chernobyl • Arkadiusz Podniesiński and David McNeill, • APJ Feature, Protests: The 20 Millisievert Fukushima: A Second Chernobyl? Decision and the Future of Atomic Energy in Japan • David McNeill, False Dawn: The Decline of Watchdog Journalism in Japan • David McNeill, Japan’s government faces looming crisis over ‘whack-a-mole’ nuclear • Norma Field, Despair Properly, To Find the policies Next Step

• Robert Jacobs, On Forgetting Fukushima 7. Literary, Artistic and Press Responses to Earthquake Tsunami and Meltdown • William Johnston, The Making of "A Body in Fukushima"; A Journey Through an Ongoing Disaster

• Sonja Petrovic,Tracing Individual • Allison Holland, Natural Disaster, Trauma Perceptions of Media Credibility in Post-3.11 and Activism in the art of Takamine Tadasu

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• Carolyn Stevens,Images and Suffering, • Noriko Manabe, The No Nukes 2012 Concert Resilience and Compassion and the Role of Musicians in the Anti-Nuclear Movement • Helen Kilpatrick, The Recognition of Nuclear Trauma in Sagashite Imasu. • Mainichi Shimbun, The Black Box of Japan's Nuclear Power • Tamaki Tokia, The Post 3/11 Quest for True Kizuna • Asia-Pacific Journal Feature,Reporters Without Borders on Discrimination Against • Andrew Brown, Remembering Hiroshima and Freelance Journalists in Japan the Lucky Dragon in Chim Pom's Level 7 feat. "Myth of Tomrrow" • Makiko SEGAWA, After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11 • Peter Eckersall, Performance, Mourning and the Long View of Nuclear Space • Paul Jobin, BBC and ZDF documentaries on Fukushima • Andrew Brown and Vera Mackie, Introduction: Art and Activism in Post- • Maeda Arata and Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Disaster Japan Amid Invisible Terror: The Righteous Anger of A Fukushima Farmer Poet • Christopher S. Thompson, Are You Coming to the Matsuri?: Tsunami Recovery and Folk • Susan J. Napier, The Anime Director, the Performance Culture on Iwate’s Rikuchū Coast Fantasy Girl and the Very Real Tsunami

• David McNeill, Al-Jazeera America on the • Matthew Penney, Nuclear Nationalism and Fukushima Triple Disaster, Three Years On Fukushima

• Noriko Manabe,Music in Japanese • Yau Shuk-ting, Kinnia,Responding to Antinuclear Demonstrations: The Evolution of a Disaster: Japan’s 3.11 Catastrophe in Historical Contentious Performance Model Perspective: Special Issue of APJ

• Asato Ikeda, Ikeda Manabu, the 2011 Great • Ran Zwigenberg, "The Coming of a Second East Japan Earthquake, and Disaster/Nuclear Sun”: The 1956 Atoms for Peace Exhibit in Art in Japan Hiroshima and Japan’s Embrace of Nuclear Power • Asato Ikeda, On Uranium Art: Artist Ken + Julia Yonetani in Conversation with Asato Ikeda • Nicola Liscutin, Indignez-vous! 'Fukushima,' New Media and Anti-Nucler Activism in Japan • David McNeill, Truth to Power: Japanese Media, International Media and 3.11 Reportage • APJ Feature, What are the Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Meltdown? • Rebecca Jennison, “Revelations from the Japanese Press Assessments Sea”: An Artist’s Response to the Disasters of March 11th, 2011 • Philip Brasor, “Public Anger,” Power, and the Rule of Japanese Elites • Chim↑Pom with an introduction by Linda Hoaglund, The Suddenly Relevant Activist • Vivian Blaxell,Sorrow, History and Antics of Artist Collective Chim↑Pom:Catastrophe in Japan After the 3.11 Challenging Japan’s Nuclear Power Agenda Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown: A

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Personal Encounter

• Murakami Haruki, Speaking as an Unrealistic 1. Blogs and Twitter Dreamer

• Roger Pulvers, Murakami, the No-Nuclear The Wall Street Journal’s blog “Japan Realtime” Principles, Nuclear Power and the Bomb offers eclectic commentary on contemporary • Wagō Ryōichi and Jeffery Angles, Pebbles of Japan. The focus is on economic issues but the blog has presented solid original reportage on Poetry: The Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami Fukushima since March. • Philip J. Cunningham, Japan Quake Shakes http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/ TV: The Media Response to Catastrophe

• Matthew Penney, Songs for Fukushima A series of original translations on issues • Norimatsu Satoko, Worldwide Responses to relating to the Tsunami and nuclear crisis from the 20 Millisievert Controversy a McGill University translation seminar organized by Prof. Adrienne Hurley. • Amory Lovins,Learning From Japan's Nuclear Disaster https://east306.wordpress.com/

The blog Global Voices features the work of volunteer translators who strive to spread awareness of local perspectives that often end up lost in mainstream reportage. Highlights of the Fukushima coverage include “A Nuclear Gypsy’s Tale” http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/08/03/japan- a-nuclear-gypsy’s-tale/

http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/world/east-asia/j II. Resources on the 3.11 Earthquake apan/ Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown: Societal and Government Responses. English and Japanese sources. A collection of links and commentary in French

http://fukushima.over-blog.fr/ • This is a project in progress. Please send suggestions for important additions, including a brief description and URL, to Matthew Penney Twitter stream for Fukushima articles and info at [email protected] in English

http://twitter.com/#!/fukushimaeng

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http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/

On the Peace Philosophy Centre blog, Asia- Pacific Journal Coordinator Satoko Norimatsu presents a range of hard-hitting criticisms of True to its mandate, Greenpeace has presented the Japanese government and TEPCOsome of the most critical coverage of the responses to the Fukushima crisis including Fukushima nuclear disaster. Greenpeace, in original translations of sources not otherwise February 2012, published a majorcritical available in English and extensive Japanese and overview of the 3.11 disaster and crisis. The English language coverage of official, NGO and study examines the nuclear meltdown, assesses blog sources. the dangers of radiation, the fundamental failure of the Japanese nuclear system, and the http://peacephilosophy.blogspot.com/ issues of compensation to victims.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/ca mpaigns/nuclear/safety/accidents/Fukushima- Ten Thousand Things is a blog Supporting nuclear-disaster/ Positive Peace in Japan, the Asia-Pacific and Everywhere which includes extensive coverage of peace and environmental movements. The Citizens’ Nuclear Information Centre is a http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.co longstanding organization that aims to provide m/ information about nuclear energy and its risks to the Japanese public. Their bi-monthly newsletter is a valuable source of information on nuclear issues. English and Japanese blog specializing in 3.11 economic and financial issues. http://www.cnic.jp/english/ http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/ They also offer a blog containing video resources and links to important anti-nuclear http://ex-skf-jp.blogspot.com/ publications

http://cnic-movie.blogspot.com/

The website of Japan’s Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, an NGO devoted to phasing 2. NGOs and Informational Websites out atomic energy. English and Japanese sites.

http://www.isep.or.jp/

Green Action Kyoto, an NGO which has http://www.isep.or.jp/en campaigned against nuclear power since the early 1990s, presents a comprehensive and critical blog of Fukushima stories in English drawing on government, media and NGO The Japanese website of leading nuclear sources. protest organizer “Shiroto no Ran”.

25 | | 0 APJ | JF http://trio4.nobody.jp/keita/ important scientific issues for the general public

http://www.ieer.org/ A collection of hundreds of anti-nuclear posters. http://nonukeart.org/ The Atomic Age: From Hiroshima to the Present is a resourcs maintained at the University of Chicago National Network to Protect Children from http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/ Radiation (in Japanese) http://kodomozenkokunet.sblo.jp/ Environmental Network News covers a range

of environmenal issues EShift, a Japanese network dedicated to http://www.enn.com/ phasing out atomic energy in favor of natural renewables. http://e-shift.org/

3. Japanese Mass Media (Mainly Japanese Fukushima coverage by the Bulletin of Atomic language sources) Scientists. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/special-t opics/japan-focus-collection-of-the-bulletins- Japan Today: coverage http://www.japantoday.com/ http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/roundta bles/fukushima-what-dont-we-know

A general English language news site, but they are often fastest in providing Kyodo's news Arnie Gunderson’s Fairewinds Associates reports. provides critical analysis of global nuclear issues by scientist. It has closely followed the Fukushima situation. Japanese public broadcaster NHK's most recent http://www.fairewinds.org/updates updates on Fukushima and Nuclear Power (in Japanese).

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/genpatsu-fukushim The Institute for Energy and Environmental a/top/index.html Research, a group which aims to provide concise and easily understood commentary on

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Yomiuri Shimbun’s Japanese languagehttp://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/incident/index. Fukushima section. html http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/feature/TO000303/

TEPCO official updates in English by the power company responsible for the Fukushima plants. Nikkei’s Japanese language “Nuclear Crisis” (Japanese, Chinese and Korean texts available) section. http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html http://www.nikkei.com/news/special/top/q=969 4E3E0E2E1E0E2E3E3E5E6E2EA;p=9694E3E0 http://www.tepco.co.jp/index-j.html E2E1E0E2E3E3E5E6E2E1;o=9694E3E0E2E1E 0E2E3E3E5E6E2E0

TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi press releases (in Japanese) Asahi’s Japanese nuclear news page. http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/press_f1/2011/ http://www.asahi.com/special/10005/index_npp. 2011-j.html html

MEXT radiation monitoring English and Mainichi Japanese nuclear section. Japanese sites http://mainichi.jp/select/weathernews/2011031 http://www.mext.go.jp/en/news/topics/detail/13 1/nuclear/ 72735.htm

http://www.mext.go.jp/

4. Government and TEPCO Sources Radiation data from across Japan provided by Japan’s Ministry of Science (in Japanese).

http://atmc.jp/ The website of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency. Japanese and English http://www.jaea.go.jp/english/ The US Department of Energy’s Fukushima site http://www.jaea.go.jp/ http://energy.gov/articles/us-department-energ y-releases-radiation-monitoring-data- fukushima-area

Japanese Cabinet’s “Countermeasures for the Great East Japan Earthquake” and other official statements on the disaster and response The French IRSN’s English-language (English language) documents on Fukushima

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“Save Child” was a website that focused on issues relating to radiation and public health, particularly the exposure of Fukushima 5. Japanese Blogs and Websites children

http://web.archive.org/web/20160503033936/ht tp://savechild.net/ Blogger “Zama Miyagare” aggregates top news from the 35 most widely read blogs on the nuclear power issue Our Planet TV is an alternative media site that http://blog.livedoor.jp/amenohimoharenohimo/ has paid strong attention to the issue of radiation exposure of Fukushima children

http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=taxonomy/term Koide Hiroaki’s “Hikoushiki Matome” is the /83 blog of a Kyoto University nuclear researcher who aims to provide alternative information on the Fukushima crisis Video News is an alternative, advertising free http://hiroakikoide.wordpress.com/about/ news source. The site features interviews about Fukushima with scientists and activists who aim to provide alternatives to mainstream media and government perspectives The magazine Diamond, and particularly its political writer Uesugi Takashi, have presented http://www.videonews.com/ some of the most detailed critiques of the

Japanese government’s response to Fukushima Gendai Business, one of Japan’s leading http://diamond.jp/category/s-uesugi business magazines, has distinguished itself with hard-hitting Fukushima coverage

http://gendai.ismedia.jp/ Iwakami Yasumi is a freelance journalist whose web journal closely follows issues relating to Fukushima radiation The website of LDP Diet member Kohno Taro http://iwakamiyasumi.com/ who has consistently criticised his own party’s line on energy policy

http://www.taro.org/ Tanaka Ryusaku is an independent investigative journalist whose blog contains varied information about Fukushima and anti- nuclear protests The Jiyu Hodo Kyokai (Free Broadcast Group)

28 | | 0 APJ | JF runs an alternative news site called simply The The “Genpatsu” blog aims to translate foreign News news stories into Japanese http://the-news.jp/ http://genpatsu.wordpress.com/

Blogger Kinoshita Kouta aims to draw attention The “Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation” is organizing protests and to the dangers of radiation providing alternative information for http://blog.goo.ne.jp/nagaikenji20070927 Fukushima parents http://kodomofukushima.net/

Onuma Yasushi blogs in the form of a “Personal Newspaper”. He has amassed hundreds of links “Chu-Oni” (Middle Ogre) and “Ou-Oni” (Big to pieces relating to Fukushima andOgre) break down everything from official contamination radiation statistics to anti-nuclear public opinion http://onuma.cocolog-nifty.com/blog1/ http://onihutari.blog60.fc2.com/blog-entry-67.ht ml