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Shaken to the Core: Japan's Nuclear Program Battered by Niigata Quake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

David McNeill
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One of the lesser-known casualties of the deadly July 16 quake that struck Niigata Prefecture was a headstone that toppled in a village a few miles from the epicenter off Kashiwazaki. The grave bore the name of legendary former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei, Japan's postwar master of pork-barrel politics and the man who helped bring the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant to this deprived area on the Sea of Japan coast.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , e3
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