The Fukushima nuclear accident and Japan’s civil society: Context, reactions, and policy impacts

International Sociology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 283-301

  Hasegawa, Koichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antinuclear activities; civil society; Japan and Germany; nuclear accident; social movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907184583     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: 14617242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580914536413     Document Type: Article

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