scholarly journals Why Manga Matters after Fukushima

Media-N ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuhito Abe
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
New Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Nuclear Crisis ◽  
Cleanup Workers ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011 has created an alternative space for reportage and journalism. While much research has investigated how mainstream news media reported the Fukushima disaster in Japan and elsewhere, virtually absent is a scholarly investigation of the role of new media artworks in shaping what it means to be the Fukushima nuclear crisis. This study thus focuses on the role of Japanese manga among various new media artworks, and investigates how the disaster was represented in comics form.  Among various Japanese manga on the Fukushima disaster, this paper focuses on examining a Japanese manga titled as Ichi Efu: Fukushima Daiichi genshiryoku hatsudensho rōdōki or 1F: A cleanup worker’s account of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (thereafter, 1F) written by Kazuto Tatsuta, one of the Japanese cleanup workers at the wrecked power plant. Originally published in Morning, a Japanese weekly manga magazine in 2013, 1F illuminates what the consequences of the Fukushima disaster looked like from the perspectives of a cleanup worker, providing an uncommon view of Fukushima for a wide variety of audiences including comic fans in Japan and elsewhere.   

Role of nurses in a nuclear disaster: experience in the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Noto ◽  
C. Kitamiya ◽  
C. Itaki ◽  
M. Urushizaka ◽  
R. Kidachi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant Accident ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Disaster Experience

scholarly journals Involvement through photography

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 48-57
Author(s):  
J. Takai
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

As a photographer living in Tokyo, I have been visiting Suetsugi village regularly to take photographs and show the printed photographs to the residents. What is the role of photography? What does it mean to be involved in the life of Suetsugi through photography? This article discusses some of the answers to these questions 5 years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

My Nuclear Nightmare

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoto Kan
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Tsunami Waves ◽  
Tokyo Metropolitan Area ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Day By Day

On March 11, 2011, a massive undersea earthquake off Japan's coast triggered devastating tsunami waves that in turn caused meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Ranked with Chernobyl as the worst nuclear disaster in history, Fukushima will have lasting consequences for generations. Until 3.11, Japan's Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, had supported the use of nuclear power. His position would undergo a radical change, however, as Kan watched the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant unfold and came to understand the potential for the physical, economic, and political destruction of Japan. This book offers a fascinating day-by-day account of the Prime Minister's actions in the harrowing week after the earthquake struck. He records the anguished decisions he had to make as the scale of destruction became clear and the threat of nuclear catastrophe loomed ever larger—decisions made on the basis of information that was often unreliable. For example, frustrated by the lack of clarity from the executives at Tepco, the company that owned the power plant, Kan decided to visit Fukushima himself, despite the risks, so he could talk to the plant's manager and find out what was really happening on the ground. As the text details, a combination of extremely good fortune and hard work just barely prevented a total meltdown of all of Fukushima's reactor units, which would have necessitated the evacuation of the thirty million residents of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area.

Issues in Radiation Nursing Education in Japan Before and After the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Teruko Horiuchi ◽  
Chieri Yamada ◽  
Misako Kinoshita ◽  
Nobuaki Moriyama ◽  
Seiji Yasumura
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant Accident ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

Abstract Background: The response of nurses in Japan to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident was deemed inadequate. This study examined the issues in Japanese radiation nursing education. Method: Anonymous, self-administered postal questionnaires were sent to managers and teachers of 1053 basic nursing educational institutions in Japan. Results: Among the 342 institutions that completed the questionnaire, 218 (63.7%) had incorporated Radiological Nursing Education into their curriculum while 124 (36.3%) had not. Based on the time of their incorporation, they were divided into the pre-accident incorporation group and the post-accident incorporation groups. For 89 of 111 institutions (85.6%) in the former group, the main reason for the incorporation was radiotherapy care. For 11 of 26 institutions (42.3%) in the latter group, the incorporation was their response to the nuclear disaster. Conclusion: Nursing education in Japan has been inadequate, and as such, nurses find it hard to respond to nuclear disasters. Examining the current nursing education system and building a new model based on the nuclear disaster experience are urgent issues.

Special Issue on Managing Catastrophic Technological Risks and Role of Technology Assessment (TA) in the Post 3/11 Society

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 473-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsujiro Suzuki ◽  
Go Yoshizawa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Plant ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Societal Impacts

The nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCo)’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami, is probably the worst “catastrophic technological risk” ever experienced by Japan. Whether this serious accident could have been prevented or managed better is the key question that we need to pursue. Technology Assessment (TA), which is intended to help decision making by assessing possible societal impacts of particular technology, can play significant role in managing catastrophic technological risks by providing an objective assessment of technological risks before it happens, while it is happening and even after the accident. In this special issue on TA, we are fortunate to have papers and reviews from both distinguished experts as well as young scholars. The variety of the subject is also very useful to see how TA can be applied under the different situations. In particular, in the post 3.11 society, we believe it is a good occasion to consider institutionalization of TA in Japan.

No Man’s Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-171
Author(s):  
Marco Bohr
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Nuclear Fallout ◽  
The People ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
The Aesthetic

Produced in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami and earthquake that hit Japan on the 11th of March 2011, Toshi Fujiwara’s film No Man’s Zone(Mujin Chitai, 2012) is a portrait of a country coming to terms with the nuclear fallout in Fukushima. Interviews are interlaced with long takes of the post-apocalyptic landscape and subtle observations that point to the suffering and trauma by the people living in, or uprooted from, the area near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The film also questions the role of images of the disaster and indeed the role of the filmmaker creating these very images. Marco Bohr highlights how the philosophical debate about the role of images produced in a disaster zone is primarily facilitated through the aesthetic, formal and structural device of the essay film.Its self-reflexivity is deployed here as a strategy to provoke the viewer in seeing representations of the disaster in a new light.

Development and evaluation of interdisciplinary teaching materials that "tell Fukushima"

Impact ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Taeko Doi
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Educational Materials ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Faculty Of Education ◽  
Fukushima Disaster ◽  
Shed Light

Ten years ago, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan suffered major damage due to a massive earthquake and tsunami and this ultimately led to the second largest nuclear disaster in history. The area is still contaminated with unacceptable levels of dangerous pollution. Professor Taeko Doi, Faculty of Education, Kanazawa University, believes there is a lack of educational materials about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster and, without proper education of the events and aftermath, the Japanese people cannot fully recover. She is currently working on projects related to the Fukushima disaster, the goal of which is to aid the individuals directly affected and improve environmental education in Japan as a whole. In her latest work, Doi is exploring the recent history of Fukushima in order to remind people that problems persist and provide support to victims, as well as teachers trying to educate future generations. This work involves extensive surveys with survivors of the disaster and past and present Fukushima prefecture residents and has shed light on the issues facing residents, including dangerously high levels of radiation. Doi's work is also used to create textbooks and teaching materials for schools. The goal is to keep the lessons and memories of Fukushima alive and inform coming generations in Japan and beyond about the future of energy.

scholarly journals Managing unpleasant moods: Affective discipline in Facebook discussions

2020 ◽  
pp. 136754942097321
Author(s):  
Anna Rantasila
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
News Media ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Affective Dynamics ◽  
Facebook Pages ◽  
Official Information

The article explores how affect is circulated and managed in comment discussions on networked online platforms, such as Facebook. A mixed-methods analysis is conducted of comments on news about the triple disaster of an earthquake, a tsunami and a meltdown of three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011 on public Facebook pages of seven Finnish mainstream news media. The article examines how affect sticks and circulates in these discussions, and how the commenters direct and sustain the mode and mood of Facebook discussions. The main findings of the article concern how online discussions are structured by what the author calls affective discipline, in which participants the discussion manage the mood of the discussion through various means. The results open up an important way to study the internal, affective dynamics of contemporary online discussions. In particular, the study helps us understand how flows of affect are shaped and steered in online discussions, and how the same discussions may simultaneously sustain multiple affective dynamics. These dynamics may, in turn contribute to how publics respond to news and official information in crises.

scholarly journals Radiocesium concentrations in wild mushrooms collected in Kawauchi Village after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

PeerJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e1427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanami Nakashima ◽  
Makiko Orita ◽  
Naoko Fukuda ◽  
Yasuyuki Taira ◽  
Naomi Hayashida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Radioactive Cesium ◽  
Wild Mushrooms ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Average Intake ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Effective Doses ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

It is well known from the experience after the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant that radiocesium tends to concentrate in wild mushrooms. In this study, we collected wild mushrooms from the Kawauchi Village of Fukushima Prefecture, located within 30 km of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and evaluated their radiocesium concentrations to estimate the risk of internal radiation exposure in local residents. We found that radioactive cesium exceeding 100 Bq/kg was detected in 125 of 154 mushrooms (81.2%). We calculated committed effective doses based on 6,278 g per year (age > 20 years, 17.2 g/day), the average intake of Japanese citizens, ranging from doses of 0.11–1.60 mSv, respectively. Although committed effective doses are limited even if residents eat contaminated foods several times, we believe that comprehensive risk-communication based on the results of the radiocesium measurements of food, water, and soil is necessary for the recovery of Fukushima after this nuclear disaster.

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