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281_Anti Nuke: The Japanese street artist taking on Tokyo, TEPCO and the nation's right-wing extremists 281_Anti Nuke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Jon Mitchell
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More than two years after the triple disasters that included the meltdowns at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, between 160,000 and 300,000 Tohoku residents remain displaced, the power station teeters on the brink of further disaster, and large swathes of northern Japan are so irradiated they may be uninhabitable for generations to come. But today in Tokyo, it is as though March 11, 2011 never happened. The streets are packed with tourists and banners herald the city's 2020 Olympic bid; the neon lights are back on and all memories of post-meltdown power savings seem long forgotten.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 24 , June 2013 , e5
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1. For a compelling summary of Fukushima's problems two years after the meltdowns, read “Fukushima residents still struggling 2 years after disaster,” The Lancet, Volume 381, Issue 9869, Pages 791 - 792, 9 March 2013. Available here. For the debate on raising the bar on habitable levels, see here. As of June 2013, TEPCO maintains that decommissioning the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi will take between 30 and 40 years. See here

2. See Linda Hoaglund's article on Chim ↑ Pom.

3. For further reading on the power of comic books, see Scott McCloud, “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art”, William Morrow Paperbacks, 1994.

4. See: 安倍氏を風刺する “いたずらポスター“ 増殖中, Tokyo Sports, December 8, 2012. Available here.

5. For a wider exploration of the trend, see: Xenophobia finds fertile soil in web anonymity, The Japan Times, January 8, 2013. Available here

6. For the weekly demonstrations at Shin- Okubo, see here. For the anti-Okinawan demonstration, see here.