Five Years After - Reassessing Japan`s Responses to the Earthquake, Tsunami, and the Nuclear Disaster

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-4-13-037050-9
Verlag: University of Tokyo Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

?Five years after the Triple Disaster—the earthquake, tsunami, and the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant—the national government's response is often criticized. However, despite the magnitude of the disaster, the recovery and reconstruction have been rapid. If it is true that the Japanese government has failed in the response to the nuclear accident but succeeded in the recovery and reconstruction from the earthquake and tsunami, it must be acknowledged that both failure and success come out of the same characteristics of the same system.

Starting from this premise, this anthology attempts to conduct a reassessment of the national response to the Great East Japan Earthquake and its aftermath from the perspective of the social sciences, ranging from politics, economics, community sociology, public administration, and communication studies. It takes care to distinguish assessment of short-term responses to the disaster from the necessity for long-term changes in society. How has the recovery process proceeded in such fields as reconstruction of public infrastructure, housing reconstruction, support for evacuees, reopening schools, and debris disposal? Was TEPCO's precaution and post-disaster response inappropriate to the accident? What were the critical issues to be discussed in the crisis communication of national and local government? Has the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident provided momentum to bring about revolutionary changes to nuclear power plant safety in Japan and Japan's energy policy? This collaboration attempts to provide perspective in a time of turmoil.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsunekawa, Keiichi

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Toward a Balanced Assessment of Japan's Responses to the Triple Disaster, by Keiichi Tsunekawa (senior professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
2. Responses of the National Government to the Great East Japan Earthquake, by Kengo Soga (professor, faculty of law, Kyoto University)
3. Nuclear Safety Regulation in Japan Pre- and Post-Fukushima, by Hideaki Shiroyama (professor, faculty of law, University of Tokyo)
4. Corporate Influence and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident: How Has TEPCO Survived, by Hiroyuki Tagawa (research fellow, University of Tsukuba)
5. Public Policymaking for Housing Reconstruction in Disaster-Stricken Areas in Tohoku, by Michio Muramatsu (professor emeritus, Kyoto University) and Naoto Takeuchi (bureau chief of the Fukui prefectural government)
6. School Education after the Great East Japan Earthquake, by Eiichi Aoki (associate professor, Faculty of Education, Tohoku University)
7. Local Autonomy and the Complete Resident Evacuation in Fukushima, by Masaki Abe (professor, faculty of law, Osaka City University)
8. Japan–US Joint Disaster Relief Operations: Achievement, Limitations, and Impacts, by Narushige Michishita (professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) and Andrea Pressello (research fellow, Sophia University)
9. Crisis Communication and Foreign Response, by Keiichi Tsunekawa
10. Information Media Environment and Social Capital in Times of Emergency: How They Affected Survivors' Postdisaster Adaptation, by Ken'ichi Ikeda (professor, faculty of sociology, Doshisha University) and Yuki Yasuda (professor, faculty of sociology, Kansai University)

Über Autor(innen)

?Keiichi Tsunekawa is senior professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo.