Japan in Crisis: What Will It Take for Japan to Rise Again? by Bong Youngshik, T. J. Pempel (eds.)

By Bong Youngshik, T. J. Pempel (eds.)

This quantity, stemming from the Asan Institute for coverage experiences, observes that for Japan to 'rise back' may suggest restoration not just from the triple disaster—the March, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown—but from 20-plus years of monetary stagnation, political fumbling, and deterioration in Japan's neighborhood and international influence.

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By Bong Youngshik, T. J. Pempel (eds.)

This quantity, stemming from the Asan Institute for coverage experiences, observes that for Japan to 'rise back' may suggest restoration not just from the triple disaster—the March, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown—but from 20-plus years of monetary stagnation, political fumbling, and deterioration in Japan's neighborhood and international influence.

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There were a few important and decisive moments that strengthened this negative public psychology as the entire nation sought to overcome the unprecedented events and prioritize recovering and reconstructing its vast devastated regions hit by the tsunami and earthquake. The most symbolic political fiasco was a harsh and ugly internal power struggle in the DPJ that could be seen from the end of May to the beginning of June 2011, which consequently resulted in the change of prime ministership from Kan to Yoshihiko Noda, Kan’s finance minister.

The investigative committee emphasized this lost opportunity, saying it should be pointed out as problematic that any thought of utilizing the SPEEDI system was totally missing in planning the evacuation strategy. Also, a series of instructions given by the GOJ for evacuation did not promptly reach all of the relevant local governments subject to the evacuation areas that had been declared by the central government. , 9–10. , 11–13. 40 Japan in Crisis power companies. Both the GOJ and TEPCO had never fully envisioned any potential occurrence of severe nuclear accidents nor made their best advance efforts to prepare for containing or mitigating such disasters.

Sakai, Toshiaki, Tomoyoshi Takeda, Hiroshi Soraoka, and Ken Yanagisawa. ” Proceedings of ICONE14, International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Miami, Florida, United States, July 2006. Suzuki, Tatsujiro. ” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 65, no. 5 (2011). Tokyo Denryoku Fukushima Hatsudesho ni okeru Jiko Chosa/Kensho Iinkai [Investigation Committee on the Accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Stations of Tokyo Electric Power Company]. “Chukan houkoku” [Interim report]. December 26, 2011. http://icanps.

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