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What Happened in Fukushima?
It was “unexpected” that the Japanese people, globally renowned for their craftsmanship and sophisticated technology, were not able to adopt the...
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The Fukushima Catastrophe To What End?
Based on a variety of interviews with residents, farmers, scientists, journalists, and activists who have been affected by the Fukushima catastrophe,...
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Japan’s Energy Policy and Community Power Movement After the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
This chapter discusses Japan’s Energy policy after the Fukushima nuclear accident of March 11, 2011, and which is the largest nuclear accident since...
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Where did Contaminated Substances Go?
On 19 September 2019, the trial concluded on three TEPCO senior management personnel, whether they had been negligent in causing the Fukushima...
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Radioactive Contamination Spread Worldwide—The Threat from Nuclear-Contaminated Water
In October 2020, the Japanese government intended to approve the plan to discharge into the ocean 1.23 million tonnes of nuclear contaminated water...
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Introduction: Education for Ecological Justice and Social Justice—Cultivating the Capacity for Affect, Thinking, Autonomy and Action—Lau Kin Chi
In May 2021, Fukushima, Island of Fortune or Contamination: Interrogation after Ten Years (《 福岛/辐岛: 十年回首诘问》, in Simplified Chinese) was published by...
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Mourning of Nature
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, residents within 20 kilometers of the nuclear power plant were urgently evacuated. In the rush, people were not...
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Glint of Hope Ignited by the Olympic Torch?
The Japanese government meticulously and elaborately designed the campaign to promote the theme of “Fukushima revitalization” through the 2020 Tokyo...
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Introduction: We Are in a Critical State—He Zhixiong
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011 had happened ten years ago, yet the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis is far from being...
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The People’s Self Rescue
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, the most serious post-WWII crisis in Japan, the people refused to be blackmailed. They exposed the collusion...
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Fairy Tale of Astro Boy
The official report of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission clearly pointed out that “The underlying issue is the...
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Heart of Darkness—The Molten Reactor Core
On 16 December 2011, the Japanese government claimed that the damaged reactors at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had reached a stable state at a low...
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A New Logic of Multilateralism on Demand
In the twenty-first century, against the background of changing geopolitics, multilateralism has been emphasized even during the U.S. Donald Trump...
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The Reality after Fukushima in Japan
This study analyses the government’s efforts and the actual situation of the victims of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident five years...
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The Fight Against Climate Change in Germany: From Energiewende to Zeitenwende?
In Germany, two factors determine climate policy and the extent to which it features in political debate. On the one hand, party politics and their...
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From Three Mile Island to Fukushima: the impact of analogy on attitudes toward nuclear power
Policy scholars are paying increasing attention to the role of language in policy debates, with particular emphasis on narratives. Policy narratives...
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Energy Governance in Switzerland
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 had a massive impact on Swiss energy policy. At the Paris Climate Summit held at the end of 2015, Switzerland...
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Energy Governance in Switzerland
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 had a massive impact on Swiss energy policy. At the Paris Climate Summit held at the end of 2015, Switzerland...
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Revival? Clearing Evacuees to Zero?
After the earthquake and nuclear disaster, the government had set the period for reconstruction to ten years, and established a temporary...
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Absent Supervision
In July 2007, a 6.8 Richter scale earthquake struck the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, in the vicinity of Niigata. The plant was designed to...