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How Japan's Low Carbon Society and Nuclear Power Generation Came Hand in Hand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Furukawa Takuya  and
Kyoko Selden
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While tackling global warming issues has gained popular approval in the names of Eco and LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability), in recent years the voices of citizens against nuclear power have been suppressed in Japan's environmental protection movement. It is worth reflecting on the possibility that Japan's eco became warped in light of the fact that TEPCO became its big sponsor.

The Fuji Sankei Group sponsors a prize, the Grand Prize for the Global Environment Award, given annually to a company or a group actively engaged in protecting against global warming and supporting environmental protection. The twentieth recipient to be of the prize announced on February 25 this year was, ironically, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), that is now the party concerned with the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 23 , June 2011 , e2
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