Abstract The effects of the tragedy at Japan’s Fukushima power plant will continue to reverberate over the upcoming weeks, months, and years. And, as the…
Country or Region: Japan
Abstract The Japanese village of Iitate received some of the highest radiation exposures resulting from the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, particularly…
Abstract It is tempting to attribute variations in support for nuclear power to prominent accidents such as Three Mile Island in the United States or…
Abstract Following the accident at the nuclear power plant, government authorities realized to their horror that their existing plans for such an emergency were too…
Abstract On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The emerging crisis at the plant was complex, and,…
Abstract The Internet made an enormous amount of information on Fukushima available, far more than was provided by the media during the Three Mile Island…
Abstract The effects of the tragedy at Japan’s Fukushima power plant will continue to reverberate over the upcoming weeks, months, and years. And, as the…
Summary September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this treaty,…
Summary As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their economic model had gone terribly…
Summary Arguing for a strategy that promises to achieve greater regional stability, this overview of security relations in the Asia-Pacific finds that current approaches by…
Summary This thoughtful and deeply informed book assesses the background, status, and outlook of U.S. relations with the Asia-Pacific. Noted expert Robert G. Sutter takes…
Abstract This Asia Policy roundtable brings together experts and former policy practitioners to assess the opportunities and challenges arising from the United States’ strategic rebalancing…
Summary This is the first book-length work in English dealing with the crucial and troubled relationship between Korea and the United States. Leading scholars in…
Abstract This article examines the foreign policy views of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), from the party’s founding through its first year in power.…
Abstract The treatment of the wartime period in Japan’s history textbooks has long been a subject of debate and controversy, even a source of international…
