Post-crisis Japanese nuclear policy: From top-down directives to bottom-up activism

Asia Pacific Issues

Volumn , Issue 103, 2012, Pages 1-12

  Aldrich, Daniel P ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CIVIL SOCIETY; ENERGY POLICY; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; NUCLEAR POWER;

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EID: 84857067502     PISSN: 15220966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (33)

1. For details on the split between the two, see Hitoshi Yoshioka, Genshiryoku no Shakaishi [The social history of nuclear power] (Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1999).
2. University of Southern California professor Jacques Hymans has written extensively about the long-term institutional stability in Japan's nuclear power regime, which has kept that nation from pursuing nuclear weapons. Some of his writings are available at http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~hymans.
3. See Gabrielle Hecht, The Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998).
4. John L. Campbell, Collapse of an Industry (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988) for a discussion of national-level energy plans in France and the United States.
5. Susan Pickett, "Japan's Nuclear Energy Policy," Energy Policy 30 (2002): 1337-55.
6. Daniel P. Aldrich, "Location, Location, Location: Selecting Sites for Controversial Facilities," Singapore Economic Review 53, no. 1 (2008): 145-72.
7. MITI was popularized in the West in Chalmers Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982).
8. See Daniel P. Aldrich, Site Fights: Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008 and 2010) for details on these programs.
9. These are quotes from Martin Fackler and Norimitsu Onishi, "Utility Reform Eluding Japan After Nuclear Plant Disaster," New York Times, May 31, 2011.
10. Koichi Hasegawa, Constructing Civil Society in Japan: Voices of Environmental Movements (Melbourne, Australia: TransPacific Press, 2004), 26.
11. See S. Hayden Lesbirel, NIMBY Politics in Japan: Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998) for more information.
12. Ronald Inglehart is well-known for his work on post-materialist consciousness; see his article "Changing Values among Western Publics from 1970 to 2006," West European Politics 31, no.1 (2008): 130-46.
13. Social scientists under the sponsorship of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) provided a detailed report of their field visit to the Tohoku region, which is available online at http://www.eqclearinghouse.org/2011-03-11-sendai/files/2011/03/Japan-SocSci-Rpt-hirez-rev.pdf.
14. New studies by researchers such as Takuya Kobayashi have shown that the amount of radiation in the sea is at least three times higher than initial estimates released by TEPCO. See the Yomiuri Shinbun report on this topic at http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110909005415.htm.
15. "Worker Exposed Deception/Whistleblower Informed JCP of Kyushu Electric's Plans," Yomiuri Shinbun, July 9, 2011.
16. Chester Dawson, "Scandal Taints Japan Nuclear Sector," Wall Street Journal, August 13, 2011.
17. The government's attempts to solve difficult social problems with financial incentives is quite parallel to its use of money as a panacea in the ongoing struggle over the United States military base (re)location in the Okinawan island chain. See Alex Cooley and K. Marten, "Base Motives: The Political Economy of Okinawa's Antimilitarism," Armed Forces and Society 32, no. 4 (2006): 566-83.
18. Hayashi Kiminori, Oshima Ken'ichi, and Yokemoto Masafumi, "Overcoming American Military Base Pollution in Asia," The Asia-Pacific Journal 28-2-09 (July 13, 2009) [a translation by Christopher Nelson from article published in Gunshuku Mondai Shiryo (Disarmament), October 2008].
19. Linda Sieg, "Energy: Can Japan Afford Not to Be Nuclear?" Business Day, July 27, 2011.
20. Risa Maeda, "Tohoku Electric Aims to Triple Wind Power by 2020," Reuters, September 30, 2011.
21. See Arfon Smith, Chris Lintott, and The Citizen Science Alliance, "The (2010) Web-Scale Citizen Science: From Galaxy Zoo to the Zooniverse" (in Proceedings of the Royal Society discussion meeting, "Web Science: A New Frontier," London, UK, September 29-30, 2010 [unpublished]).
22. Janis L. Dickinson, Benjamin Zuckerberg, and David N. Bonter, "Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits," Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41 (December 2010): 149-72.
23. Vincent Devictor, Robert Whittaker, and Coralie Beltrame, similarly published "Beyond Scarcity: Citizen Science Programmes as Useful Tools for Conservation Biogeography," Diversity and Distribution 16, no. 3 (May 2010): 354-62.
24. Yuka Hayashi, "Japanese Seek Out 'Hot Spots,"' Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2011.
25. For a description of how an anti-facility movement used similar tactics when confronting scientists from the Livermore Laboratory, see Hugh Gusterson article "How Not to Construct a Radioactive Waste Incinerator," Science, Technology, and Human Values, 25, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 332-51.
26. The footage is available at http://youtu.be/rVuGwc9dlhQ (accessed November 29, 2011).
27. Yoko Kubota, "Fukushima Victims: Homeless, Desperate, and Angry," Reuters, October 18, 2011.
28. Daisuke Wakabayashi, Yuka Hayashi, Gordon Fairclough, Kana Inagaki, and Phred Dvorak, "Japan's Way Back," Wall Street Journal, Section C12, September 11, 2011.
29. Associated Press, "Fukushima Protesters Urge Japan to Abandon Nuclear Power," September 19, 2011.
30. See Mary Alice Haddad, "From Undemocratic to Democratic Civil Society: Japan's Volunteer Fire Departments," Journal of Asian Studies 69, no. 1 (February 1, 2010): 33-56.
31. Haddad, "A New State-in-Society Approach to Democratization with Examples from Japan," Democratization 17, no. 10 (October 2010): 997-1023.
32. Hiroko Tabuchi, "Japan Leader to Keep Nuclear Phase-Out," New York Times, September 2, 2011.
33. Asahi Shimbun, September 14 and 16, 2011.